Diagnostic ¹

"Diffuse or erect herbs; stem 4-angled and narrowly winged, ciliate along the margins. Leaves 1-2.7 x 0.4-1.3 cm, ovate to elliptic, base cuneate, apex acute, glabrous, subsessile; stipule bristles subulate. Flowers very small, in axillary and terminal, sessile, capitate clusters. Bracts and bracteoles subulate. Calyx lobes 2, 1-2 mm long, lanceolate. Corolla white, c. 2 mm long. Capsule c. 1 mm long, truncate, compressed, pubescent. Seeds oblong, reticulate."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26336178

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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