Axyris prostrata L.

Annual with several prostrate stems up to 25 cm long; at high elevations (4000–5000 m), the plant often has a pincushion habit with small branches and short internodes. Leaves long-petiolate, spatulate, up to 3.5 cm, entire, with longer (up to 1.5 mm) stellate hairs near the leaf base, substituted in other parts by short-rayed hairs. Male inflorescence up to 2.0 cm. Perianth of the female flowers with scattered simple hairs. All fruits compressed; black fruits 1.5–2.2 mm long, oblong, with hardly noticeable or indistinct ear-like appendages; brown fruits 1.3–1.8(2.2) mm long, pear-like, with small appendages.

See Fig. 29.