Botanical Name - Bergia capensis L.

Aquatic, annual plants, generally emergent, with primary stems decumbent, generally submerged, rooting at nodes, vertical branches emergent, succulent, and with a pink or dark reddish coloration; leaves opposite, with a pair of ovate to deltoid stipules 1–3 mm long with irregularly serrate margins, sessile, or with the blade narrowed to a short, stout petiole 1– 5 mm long; blades oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, serrate, 0.5–4 cm long, and with acute to somewhat obtuse apices; flowers several to many, clustered in the leaf axils, 1.5–2.0 mm long at anthesis, with 5 nearly linear, truncate, acute to obtuse sepals 0.9–1.3 mm, and 5 linear to oblanceolate, obtuse, greenish-white petals 1.3–1.7 mm long; stamens 10, in 2 series, with filaments about 1.5 mm long at anthesis and with anthers about 0.2 mm long; pistil with a globose, 5 locular, ovary about 1 mm long at anthesis and with 5 separate styles about 0.3 mm long with minute stigmatic, glandular hairs at the top of each, with numerous ovules in each locule and with central placentation; capsule globose, septicidal, reddish, with numerous brown, reticulate, oblong seeds 0.4–0.6 mm long. (FOC)

Bergia verticillata Willd.

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