| Description : | Annual herb, the stipules small, leaves alternate,ovate, subcordate, truncate or broadly cuneate at base, crenate-serrate or dentate, inflorescences axillary, bracteate, pedunculate, spicate; flowers tiny, green, 4-merous these usually unisexual, male flowers sessile or pedicellate, ovate or lanceolate, subvalvate, stamens long, reflexed filaments,rudimentary ovary globose or subclavate; female flowers pedicellate, imbricate, unequal in pairs, staminodes absent,ovary straight, becoming oblique, style apical ,lateral, stigma subulate, obliquely ovate or linear,persistent; achene small, marginate, seed with very little endosperm,cotyledons broad, fruiting pedicel long and winged. |
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