Kali jacquemontii (Moq.) Akhani & Roalson

Annual up to 50 cm, prostrate or rarely with prominent upright main stem. Stem and branches green or reddish, densely covered with papillae. Lower leaves up to 35 × 2 mm (upper leaves much shorter, up to 15.0 mm long), with a mucro (1.5)2.0–3.0 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters and arranged in the main inflorescence. Clusters (located below the main inflorescence) consist of two female flowers supported by a bract and two bracteoles that are connate almost to the top and usually not gibbous at the base; perianth segments membranous, fimbriate, r-shaped with their tips appressed to each other, not hardened and not forming a tight conus, with small, reddish or white tubercles up to 0.6 mm long in the flexure; styles with stigmas ca. 1.0 mm long; fruits 1.3–1.6 mm in diameter. Flowers in the main inflorescence with (almost) free, usually not gibbous, bract and bracteoles, hermaphrodite; perianth segments membranous, fimbriate, r-shaped at fruiting stage, < 2.5 mm long, soft above the flexure, hyaline, 0.6–0.8 mm long, horizontally appressed and not forming a distinct conus; three segments with horizontally orientated wing-like appendages (< 3.0 mm long), two other segments with tubercles only (the entire diaspore with the perianth wings is 3.5–6.0 mm across); anthers 0.5–0.7 mm long; styles with stigmas ca. 1.0–1.5 mm long; fruits lenticular, 1.1–1.5 mm in diameter. Seeds with horizontal or obliquely orientated embryo.

See Fig. 46.