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Habit :<br />

Stem :<br />

Leaves :<br />

Flowers :<br />

Fruits :<br />

Seeds :<br />

Alternanthera paronychioides A. St.-Hil.<br />

Prostrate, annual creeping herb.<br />

Stem with long crisped hairs on the younger<br />

parts.<br />

Leaf blade is inverted-lance shaped or spatula<br />

shaped, 1.5-2 cm long and 0.3-0.5 cm wide, tip<br />

obtuse to rounded.<br />

Stalkless flower-heads are ovoid to spherical,<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten hairy at base with white papery flowers.<br />

Utricle orbicular<br />

Discoid, 1 mm across, faintly reticulate.<br />

Common Name : Smooth joyweed<br />

<strong>Family</strong> : Amaranthaceae<br />

<strong>Weed</strong> ID Manual 15

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