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- Leaves sessile, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute,
appressed to the stem, not amplexicaul, 1-2.5 mm
long and 0.2-0.7 mm broad.
- Inflorescence lax raceme
0.5-6 cm long, with (1)3-30 flowers spirally arranged
all around; lowest flowers female, the upper ones
staminate. Floral bracts triangular-ovate to
lanceolate, acute, 0.5-1 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm wide,
appressed to the pedicel or patent. Pedicels 2-5 mm
long and 0.1-0.2 mm in diam., dark violet, usually
erect and more or less straight. Flowers
actinomorphic, unisexual, reddish-purple to dark
purple-violet, with 6 equal triangular-ovate, straight
or reflexed perianth segments. Male flowers 1.4-2
mm in diam.; tepals 0.6-1.2 mm long, 0.2-0.4 mm
wide at the base, three of them tapering at the apex
into stipitate globose or ellipsoid glabrous thick
glossy knob, they alternating with 3 tepals bearing no
appendages or with reduced insignificant thickness at
the apex. Stamens 3, with filaments hardly exceeding
anthers. Anthers white, subsessile, 4-celled,
sub-quadrate, about 0.2 mm wide. Female flowers
1-1.4 mm in diam.; tepals patent, straight, acute,
0.5-0.6 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm wide, apex without
appendages; at center with numerous free carpels in
dense sub-spherical aggregate head 0.8-1.2 mm in
diam. Carpels obovoid, 0.25-0.35 mm long.; style
adaxial, inserted laterally near the top, awl-shaped,
acute, 0.4-0.6 mm long, not much exceeding carpel.
- Achenes in sub-globose aggregate heads 1.6-2.2 mm
in diam; each achene globular or broadly-ellipsoid,
0.4-0.6 mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm broad, glabrous, with
purple, juicy pericarp, later dry, finely longitudinally
wrinkled. Seed ovoid to broadly-ellipsoid, about
0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.35-0.4 mm wide.
- Stem slender, simple, rarely branching, erect or
slightly flexuose, indistinctly ribbed, pink-yellowish
to dirty dark-violet, glabrous, 0.3-0.8 cm in diam.,
5-16 cm ta l l, with 6-10 sma l l, light brownish,
bract-like, much reduced, alternate, distant leaves.
- Roots pinkish to light violet, sinuous, not branching,
filiform, 0.1-0.2 mm in diam., with sparse hairs
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