A herb. It grows 25 cm tall. The leaves are alternate. They are narrowly oval. The flowering shoots are like spikes and the flowers are without stalks and in the axils of leaf like bracts.
Life form | annual |
Growth form | herb |
Growth support | free-standing |
Foliage retention | - |
Sexuality | hermaphrodite |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | - |
Mature height (meter) | 0.25 |
Root system | - |
Rooting depth (meter) | - |
Root diameter (meter) | - |
Flower color | |
Blooming months | - |
Fruit color | - |
Fruiting months | - |
Nitrogen fixer | - |
Photosynthetic pathway | c4 |
Light | - |
Soil humidity | |
Soil texture | - |
Soil acidity | - |
Soil nutriment | - |
Hardiness (USDA) |
Uses | animal food forage fuel medicinal |
Edible | - |
Therapeutic use | Cardiotonic (unspecified), Angina pectoris, variant (unspecified), Anti-bacterial agents (unspecified), Cardiotonic agents (unspecified), Heart diseases (unspecified) |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | - |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:164378-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000561151 |
COL ID | KVC5 |
BDTFX ID | - |
INPN ID | - |
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