Sauropus trachyspermus

Monoecious, annual herb to 40 cm high, with a fibrous root system; branchlets ribbed. Leaves linear or lanceolate to obovate, 2–45 mm long, 0.2–4.5 mm wide, acute, mucronate, flat or rarely conduplicate, glabrous or scabrous, base oblique, margins thickened; petioles to 1.5 mm long; stipules triangular, pale. Male flowers 1–6 per cluster; pedicels 0.5–2 mm long; sepals 0.3–1.5 mm long, white, yellow-brown or green, somewhat fleshy; stamen filaments connate. Female flowers solitary, pedicels 0.2–7 mm long; sepals 0.8–2 mm long, white or green, fleshy; styles 3, variously divided, 0.2–0.6 mm long. Capsule ovoid, 3.5–6 mm long, 3–7 mm wide; seeds yellow-brown, 2.5–5 mm long wide, prominently rugose, sulcate to ruminate. Flowers most of year (depending on rains).