Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial slender herbs.

Stems: Stems slender, creeping, glabrous.

Roots: Roots fibrous, slender.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades not peltate, suborbicular, 0.5–1 cm wide. Surfaces glabrous. Margins shallowly 7-lobed, the lobes crenate, the apical crenation slightly larger than the lateral one. Palmately veined. Petioles not sheathing; slender, 0.5–2 cm long, glabrous. Stipules present.

Flowers: Flowers in umbels, not proliferous, 3–10 flowered, globose; peduncles filiform, longer than the leaves, 5–20 mm long, glabrous. involucre and involucel absent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx teeth minute or absent. Corolla of 5 petals, greenish white, yellowish white, or purplish, ovate. Stamens 5, inserted on an epigynous disk. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 1 per cells, anatropous; styles 2, usually swollen at base into a stylopodium. Styles usually longer than the conical to depressed stylopodium; carpophore absent.

Fruit: Fruit consisting of 2 mericarps connate by their faces (commissure); compressed to flattened laterally; mericarps rounded or acute dorsally; glabrous to pubescent; with ribs 5 acute subequal; filiform; distinct or indistinct; companion cells present in the pericarp; but vittae absent. Mericarps separating at maturity and usually suspended from a persistent axis (carpophore); or carpophore absent; vittae in pericarp. fruit orbicular; 1–1.5 mm in diameter; sessile; glabrous. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous. seed face plane to convex.

Ploidy: 2n = 24; 48; 64

Habitat: Naturalized in lawns and other moist; disturbed sites.

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