Acalypha australis
Acalypha australis
Burtam
An annual herb, 20–60 cm tall, monoecious, strongly branched, branchlets pilose. Leaves alternate, petiole 1–6 cm, leaves broadly lanceolate, or lanceolate–oval, 3–9 × 1–5 cm, membranous, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate, strongly crenate at margin, 3–nerved at base, pilosulose along veins. Inflorescence axillary, seldom terminal, unbranched, 0.5–6 cm long, staminate and pistillate flowers in one inflorescence. Staminate flowers in elongate thin spikes, 1–3 cm long, in axils of small lanceolate bracts; sepals 4, ca. 0.5 mm, acute, ciliate, stamens 8. Female flowers 1–3 per bract, sessile, styles 3, ca. 2 mm, ovary pilose. Capsule 3–locular, ca. 4 mm in diam., pilose and tuberculate. Seeds subovoid, 1.5–2 mm, smooth. Fl. Aug.–Oct., Fr. Sep.–Nov.
