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Annual herb.
Common Name : West Indian pinkroot
Family : Spigeliaceae
50-70 cm high, unbranched, or with few pairs of
branches arising near the base. Stem erect,
cylindrical, green, glabrous, with a few remote
pairs of small leaves and an apical
pseudowhorl of four larger leaves.
Lamina ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate,
3-10 x 1-3 cm, herbaceous, scabrous above,
glabrous beneath, cuneate and often decurrent
at the base, attenuate at the apex. Leaves with
interpetiolar, broadly triangular, blunt,
glabrous stipules.
Inflorescence terminal in the axils of the
whorled upper leaves, upto 15 cm long.
Flowers white to red or purplish.
Capsule 4-5 x 5-6 mm, tuberculate.
Spigelia anthelmia L.
Obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid, 1.5-2 mm, dull
brown, tuberculate.
Weed ID Manual 305