Parietaria cretica L.

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Parietaria cretica L.

Prostrate to ascending, many-stemmed annual, rarely perennating. Stems 5–25 cm, slender, simple or sparingly branched, rather brittle, patent-pilose. Leaves shortpetiolate; blade 5–10(–15) × 3–8 mm, ovate-elliptical, cuneate at base, of rather thick texture. Flowers inconspicuous, in subsessile clusters along stem, each cluster usually with 1 terminal female flower and 2 lateral male or hermaphrodite. Bracts connate at base, accrescent and indurate in fruit, forming a brownish, irregularly 5-lobed involucre. Achenes 0.8–1.0 mm, brown.

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Parietaria cretica

Parietaria cretica

Parietaria cretica