WorldFloraDB - Einadia trigonos

Characteristics

Prostrate or semi-prostrate perennial herb, often mat-forming. Stems trailing or decumbent, often purple, farinose especially when young. Lvs mainly alternate, ± fleshy. Petiole to 1.5-(2) cm long, slender. Lamina 4-20-(33) × 2-10-(23) mm (lvs smallest at base or amongst glomerules), ovate-hastate, triangular-hastate, ovate or elliptic, entire except for a basal lobe on each side, ± grey or glaucous; margins sometimes purplish; base truncate to broad-cuneate; apex rounded to acute. Infl. farinose; fls terminal and forming ± spike-like clusters, or axillary and in fascicles of few-flowered glomerules. Perianth segments (0.3)-0.5-0.6 mm long at anthesis, linear, spathulate, ovate-oblong, with keel green and margin membranous, becoming c. 1 mm long at fruiting, loosely investing and not meeting laterally or in centre of fr. Stamens usually 2. Pericarp thin, not succulent or red, inconspicuous, easily detached. Seed horizontal, c. 0.8-1-(1.5) mm diam., circular and flattened; testa black, shining, finely granular.

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Weak prostrate or straggling perennial. Leaves thin, broadly ovate to triangular or hastate with short spreading lobes; lamina 8–15 mm long, glabrescent above, sparsely mealy below. Inflorescence a congested to slender panicle; flowers sessile. Perianth depressed-globular, 0.5–1 mm diam.; tepals linear to ovate or obovate, sparsely mealy or glabrous. Stamen 1 or absent. Fruiting perianth: tepals oblong to obovate, herbaceous or indurated, smooth; pericarp thin, often black and prominently papillose. Seed c. 1 mm diam.; testa slightly granular or striate.

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The branches are twining or lie along the ground. The leaves are alternate and a broad triangle shape. They are 5 cm long. The flowers are in a spike or reduced in clusters in the axils of the leaves.

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Growth form	herb
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It is a warm temperate plant.

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Uses	animal food
Edible	leaves
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