Description ⁴

Annual up to 24 cm tall. Stem and branches slender, glabrous. Leaves cauline and ramal, pseudo-verticillate, 1.2-4.0 cm long, 1.5 mm broad, elliptic lanceolate. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, elliptic ovate. Stamens 5, antisepalous, c. 1.2 mm long; filaments dilated at the base, anthers less than 1 mm long, basifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sub-globose, c. 1.5 mm broad, Fruit c. 9 mm broad, membranous. Seed less than 1 mm long, granulate, dark brown.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/1437296701/
2. (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/1438151548/
3. (c) Lauren Gutierrez, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/guam-flora-fauna/14805840844/
4. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4932986

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