Dried plants. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, collector Robert Brown, Australia 1802

Common Name

Narrow-leaf Joyweed

Family

Amaranthaceae

Notes

Annual forb, prostrate or erect. Leaves opposite each other, 1-5cm long, to 3mm wide, flat, hairless. Flowers often small (less than 3mm across), greenish white, in globular or oval woolly clusters at the bases of the leaves.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 281

PlantNET description with line drawings and photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Alternanthera~angustifolia