Botanical name: Lecanthus obtusus    Family: Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Synonyms: Procris obtusa, Elatostema ovatum, Lecanthus wightii, Lecanthus peduncularis var. garhwalensis

Dwarf Dischead is an annual dark green herb with stem delicate, erect, 1-3 cm long, nearly becoming hairless. Flowers are minute, pale green, 1-2 sexual, crowded on disk-like heads, carried on stalks 0.6-2.5 cm long. It is easily distinguished from the much taller plant Stalked Dischead, which has discheads on long stalks often towering over the leaves. Leaves are opposite, membranous, almost stalkless, crowded towards the top of the stem, elliptic-ovate, 0.3-0.6 x 0.2-0.5 cm, base wedge-shaped or somewhat heart-shaped, tip pointed or blunt, margin toothed, teeth usually large, the smaller lower leaves sometimes nearly or quite entire, 3 to penninerved. Achenes are tiny, red-brown. Dwarf Dischead is found in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand. Flowering: August-September.

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