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| Distribution | Perhaps originally native to India, locally escaped from cultivation in many areas.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Herbs, annual; stems erect, to 1.5 m tall, glabrous.
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Leaves
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Leaves with blade unlobed, ovate, lanceolate, or nearly linear, 8-15 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, apex long-acuminate, base tapering, narrowly cuneate, petiole 1-3 cm long.
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Flowers
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Inflorescences densely cylindric or ovoid spikes, the units 13-20 mm in diam.; flowers with tepals silvery white or pinkish, 3-veined, 6-8 mm long, scarious, translucent, style elongate, 4 mm long, indurate and exserted at maturity, stigmas 3.
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Fruit
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Utricles 4 mm long.
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Seeds
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Seeds 3-8, 1.5 mm diam., smooth, shiny.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 72
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Contributor
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David Lorence
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