| Description : |
an annual herbaceous weed. It spreads by seeds, and is green, sparingly mealy, 20-70 cm. Stem ascending to erect, generally branching, more or less angular and thickened at base. Leaves 1-7 x 0.5-4 cm, alternate, broadly triangular in outline, dark-green, rather fleshy. Petiolate, rhombic-ovate to rhombic-oblong, cuneate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, irregularly, unequally and acutely toothed, glabrous or somewhat mealy, mainly on lower surface (Zohary, 1966). Inflorescences axillary and terminal, paniculate, divaricately branched, leafy at the base, with dense or loose clustures. Flowers hermaphrodite, small, greenish. Sepals five, hooded, green, bluntly keeled, enclosing the fruit. Pericarp membranous, hardly separable from seed. Seeds 1-1.5 mm in diam., black, slightly shining, lens-shaped, acutely keeled at margin, minutely pitted, edible. |
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
Plant is nutritive, diuretic, mild purgative, emollient, antihelmintic, tranquilizer, tonic for liver. Leaves are edible. |