Family - Indian Society of Weed Science

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An annual herb.
Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm.
Common Name : Lesser swine-cress
Family : Brassicaceae
Repent, decumbent, or ascending, multiple from
the base, radiating from a central point; glabrous,
terete, green.
Alternate, petiolate, pinnate, 4-5 cm long, 2 cm
broad, glabrous. Divisions of the leaves opposite,
lobed or devided again, acute, linear-elliptic to
linear oblong.
Inflorescence a small raceme, up to 4 cm long,
opposite to one of the stem leaves, compact.
Flowers minute, greenish.
Glabrous, 3-4 mm broad, 2 mm long, slightly
compressed, sub-globose, 2-seeded.
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