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Bergia ammannioides Hayne ex Roth.
Common Name : Jerry water-fire
Family : Elatinaceae
Annual, 8-35 cm tall, erect or somewhat
decumbent, branched herb of moist places.
Stem and branches mostly pinkish, glandular
pubescent, rarely sub-glabrous.
Opposite, subsessile or shortly petiolate,
oblong-obovate, elliptic oblong, lanceolate or
oblanceolate, 4-25 mm long, 2-15 mm broad,
apex acute, margin minutely and distinctly
serrate, glandular pubescent or almost
glabrous.
Inflorescence dense or loose axillary fasciculate
cyme of 6-12 or more flowers. Flowers reddish.
Capsule reddish, ovoid or subglobose, margins
of the valves incurved.
Seeds minute, with rounded ends, dark brown,
shining, somewhat reticulate.
Weed ID Manual 43