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Smooth Joy weed

Alternanthera paronychioides

Botanical name	: Alternanthera paronychioides A. St.-Hil.
Common Name	: Smooth Joy Weed
Family	: Amaranthaceae
Synonym	: Achyranthes paronichyoides auct. non (L.) Lam
About	: Prostrate herbs, stem sparsely covered with crisped hairs. Leaves to 3 x 0.7 cm, oblanceolate to spathulate, apex acute, glabrous. Spike 5 x 3 mm, solitary, axillary, few-flowered, sessile; bracts and bracteoles similar, 1.5 mm long, hyaline, apiculate. Flowers densely packed; tepals 5, outer three larger, 2.5 x 1 mm, ovate, acute, inner smaller, all hairy; stamens 3-5; ovary obovoid, compressed, stigma bilobed.