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Common Name : Lotus sweetjuice
Family : Molluginaceae
A prostrate or ascending, annual herb,15-45 cm
long.
Much branched, stellately hairy, usually with a
long, stout taproot, spreading and forming a
loose mat.
Opposite or falsely whorled, broadly obovate
or suborbicular, 1-2.5 cm long and 0.8-1.5 cm
wide, villous on both surfaces, apex apiculate,
narrowed at the base, margins finely crenulatedenticulate.
Pinkisk or greenish, in axillary fascicles, 1-6
together.
Capsule ovoid, shorter than sepals, 5-valved.
Glinus lotoides L.
Minute, black, glossy, ovovoid, with raised
tubercular points and a distinict white scale at
the hilum, extended into a long filiform
structure, curving around the seed.
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