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Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R. Br.
A twining or prostrate perennial shrub.
Slender, cylindrical, thickened at nodes.
Common Name : False sarsaparilla
Family : Asclepiadaceae
Simple, opposite or whorled, short-petioled,
variable in shape from broadly ovate to
oblong-elliptical, linear or linear-lanceolate,
obtuse or apiculate, 3-10 cm long and 0.3-3.5 cm
wide, base acute, rounded or truncate, apex
rounded or emarginate and apiculate, leathery,
dark green above.
Small, greenish-yellow outside and purplish
inside, crowded in subsessile axillary cymes
shorter than leaves.
Follicle glabrous, often purplish, slender,
cylindrical, sometimes curved, 10-12 cm long
and 0.5-0.6 cm wide, divaricate.
Black, flattened, ovate-oblong with a silvery
coma.
Weed ID Manual 169