Erect annual herb , up to 50 cm high with hairy stems . Stems branched , erect or ascending , densely glandular hairy , puberulous . Leaves simple , opposite , elliptic to oblong , c . 3 cm long , margin entire or minutely serrate , apex acute to acuminate , hairless or with scattered hairs . Inflorescences borne in dense axillary clusters . Flowers minute , red ; sepals 5 , narrowly ovate , margin membranous , apex acuminate , hairy ; petals 5 , reddish , narrowly ovate or elliptic , subequaling sepals , apex mucronate . Fruit capsule , spherical , as long as the sepals . Seeds ca . 0 . 5 mm , numerous , cylindrical , slightly , inconspicuously reticulate-striate . (Ref . https://www . flowersofindia . net) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Very Rare
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lechea verticillata Willd.
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Ammannia Waterwort
Water Fire
Jerry Water-fire
Not used traditionally.
*https://www.flowersofindia.net *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
