Dysphania himalaica Uotila

Annual up to 15(20) cm, mostly branched from the base. Leaves appressed to the stem, short-petiolate, up to 4.0 × 1.0 cm, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, entire, sinuous or slightly lobate, green, with scattered simple hairs and subsessile yellow glands. Inflorescence leafy in the lower part, covered with short, semi-appressed white simple hairs (up to 0.4 mm long) and scattered subsessile yellow glands. Perianth segments (4)5, 0.9–1.2 × 0.25–0.40 mm, almost free, somewhat swollen near midrib with a short, white or reddish mucro(s) at the tip, their dorsal part with stout simple hairs (up to 0.15 mm), often red at the segment tips and scattered glands up to 0.1 mm (Fig. 20C). Pericarp whitish, minutely papillate, separating from the seed (Fig. 20D). Fruit 0.7–0.9 × 0.7 mm, subspherical; seed reddish, keeled; embryo vertical or sometimes horizontal (spatial heterospermy).

See Fig. 21.