Chenopodium prostratum subsp. karoi (J. Murr) Lomonosova

The species is similar to C.album, but plants are dark green, usually with ascendant or prostrate stems up to 25 cm. Leaves ± ovate, somewhat longer than broad, sometimes inconspicuously three-lobed. Fruit 1.1–1.3 mm, pericarp reticulate in dry fruits, soaked papillae up to 50 µm long (Fig. 8A). Seed margin obtuse, surface with sinuate furrows (Fig. 8B, C).

Common plant in many parts of Himalaya and Tibet (Fig. 7).