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Chenopodium murale L.
Common Name : Nettle-leaved goosefoot
Family : Chenopodiaceae
An erect or prostrate and ascending, bushy, rather
stout, herbaceous annual, up to 90 cm high.
Usually branched from the base, branches
ascending; glabrous to sparsely farinose. stems
occasionally red-striped.
Alternate along the stems, dark green; 1-10 cm
long, 1-5.5 cm wide, deltoid to rhombic-ovate,
apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate to truncate or
subcordate, margins coarsely and irregularly
sinuate-dentate or laciniate.
Flowers in small glomerules, in lax or dense
axillary and terminal, short, cymose panicles,
some arising from the lower leaf axils. Flower
clusters covered with a mealy substance.
Utricle with membranous pericarp; pericarp
adherent to seed.
Horizontal, tiny, about 1.5 mm in diameter, lensshaped/disk-shaped,
margins acute with
conspicuous thin rim, dull black, surface finely,
shallowly puncticulate.
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