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Weak scrambling herb 0.3–1.8 m. long, with prickly but otherwise glabrous stems.. Leaves and stipules in whorls of 6–8; blades linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1–4(–4.7) cm. long, 1–3(–6) mm. wide, with a filiform acumen at the apex, cuneate at the base; margins and midvein with coarse recurved prickles, making the whole plant harshly adhesive.. Cymes 1–9-flowered, but sometimes with many of the fruits borne on apparent unbranched peduncles arising from nodes of the main stem or main branches; peduncles and pedicels 0–3.2(–3.7) cm. long.. Calyx-tube 0.5–0.65 mm. long, 0.8–1.1 mm. wide, hairy or glabrous.. Corolla greenish white, white, green or yellowish, 1–2 mm. wide; tube 0.3–0.4 mm. long; lobes triangular, 0.7–1.1 mm. long, 0.5–0.6 mm. wide.. Cocci of fruit 1–3 mm. in diameter, glabrous or hairy.
Annual herb, 0.4-3.0 m high, stem weak. Leaves in whorls of 6-8, linear-lanceolate to obovate, with distinct, ± filiform acumen at apex, glabrous above or with scattered straight or curled hairs beneath, margins with coarse recurved prickles. Flowers single or occasionally paired on peduncles; fruiting pedicels up to 35 mm long. Corolla up to 2 mm in diam., greenish white, lobes longer than wide, pointed; stamens very short. Ovary up to 0.8 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Fruit covered with white, non-tuberculate, hooked hairs; mericarps globose, up to 4 mm in diam.
Straggling annual, up to ± 2 m long, with recurved prickles on angles of stem. Leaves in whorls of 6-8, linear-lanceolate to obovate, midvein and margin prickly. Flowers 1-4 in leaf axils, anthers subsessile, ovary prickly, greenish to whitish.
An annual herb. It is weak and the stem are angular. The leaves are in rings of 4-6. They are sword shaped. They are 1-3 cm long by about 1 cm wide. The flowers are in groups of 1-7 in the axils of leaves or at the ends of the stem.
Foliis fenis lanceolatis carinatis scabris retrorfum aculeatis, geniculis simplicibus, fructibus glabris. Aparine femine laeviore. Aparine foliis crebrioribus & femine laeviore.
Straggling, prickly annual ± 2 m. Leaves in whorls of 6-8, lanceolate-ovate, margins prickly. Flowers 1-4 in axils, anthers subsessile, ovary prickly, whitish.
