Description

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Growth Form: Herbs or subshrubs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, rarely opposite. Margins entire.

Flowers: Terminal and axillary spikes; thyrsoid perfect ,unisexual, or dioecious; tribracteate; small Tepals 5; errect; wooly; ovate or oblong; membranous or papery; 1 veined Stamens 5; connate cup at the base; alternating (sometimes) with staminodes; anthers 2-loculed Ovary superior, obovoid or subglobose; glabrous to wooly; style short, persistent with 2 stigma branches; stigma capitate sometimes appearing unbranched.

Fruit: Utricles ovoid; indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent. Seeds reniform-orbicular; lenticular; compressed; seed coat crustaceous.

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