Glinus hirtus

Description. (Figs 16, 17). Annual, highly branched, with prostrate or ascending stems up to 100 cm long, covered with stellate (sometimes very scattered) and branched hairs, prickles absent. Leaves rosulate, short-lived, and cauline, green or grayish-green turning red at senescence, sparsely to moderately pubescent, rarely glabrous, petiolate (petioles up to 10.0 mm), entire or slightly crisp or scarcely denticulate, ovoid, obovate or oblong-spatulate, 10.0 - 40.0 (45.0) x 3.0 - 15.0 (18.0) mm, acuminate, lateral veins neither recessed adaxially nor prominent abaxially. Flowers in clusters of 8 - 20, distant or approximated in the upper part of the inflorescence, 8 - 13 mm in diameter, sessile or with short pedicels up to 3.0 (4.0 - 5.0) mm; buds and closed anthocarp cylindrical. Perianth segments in flowering 3.0 - 4.2 mm long, in fruiting (3.5) 4.0 - 5.0 (5.5) mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, dorsally green or with white margins and ventrally white or mauve; tips + / - recurved at fruiting. Stamens (3 - 4) 5 (6 - 8), sometimes with sterile teeth; anthers 0.6 - 0.9 mm long. Stigmas 3, 0.5 - 1.0 mm long. Seeds reddish or brown-red, (0.35) 0.40 - 0.50 x 0.25 - 0.30 mm, colliculate or rarely almost smooth, longitudinal ridges absent.