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Flowers pedicellate, 2–4 in the axils of bracts, arranged in lax terminal and axillary spiciform racemes 10–25(30) cm long; bracts membranous, 4–5 mm long, obliquely truncate and produced dorsally into a subulate seta 1–2 mm long; pedicels up to 7 mm long, pubescent or with cup-shaped and/or elongated scales.
Leaves fleshy, (14)17–85(125) × (2)4–25 mm, ovate to lanceolate sometimes rhomboid, acute at the apex, attenuate below into a short petiole, entire or shallowly to deeply lobed, the lobes usually further divided, midrib prominent on the undersurface.
Ocrea greenish-white, membranous, up to 1 cm long, funnel-shaped, glabrescent or covered with cup-shaped and/or elongated scales, truncate and fringed at the apex with red or white rigid setae 2–3.5 mm long, lobed or sometimes entire.
Nut red or yellow-brown, (9)10–13 × 9–11 mm, trigonous, winged or not at the angles, sometimes with small spreading prickles in the lower one third, glabrous or with a few scattered cup-shaped and/or elongated scales.
Stems pinkish to reddish-purple, up to 50 cm tall, much branched from the base, longitudinally ridged, sparsely to densely covered with white cup-shaped and/or elongated scales.
Hermaphrodite flowers heterostylous; perianth pink or white, 5-lobed; tube c. 5 mm long; lobes 5–7 mm long and ovate-lanceolate.
Ovary 5–7 × 1–1.5 mm; styles of the long-styled flowers 3–3.5 mm long; styles of the short-styled flowers 1–3.5 mm long.
Filaments 1.5–4 mm long, with a ring of cilia near the base; anthers grey-blue to blackish, 0.5–1 × 0.3–0.5 mm.
Male flowers present; perianth 4–5 mm long; lobes 1–2 mm long; filaments 3–3.5 mm long.
A spreading prostrate semi-erect or erect, fleshy annual herb.
