Botanical name: Boerhavia coccinea    Family: Nyctaginaceae (Bougainvillea family)
Synonyms: Boerhavia hirsuta, Boerhavia ixodes, Boerhavia viscosa

Scarlet Spiderling is an annual or perennial herb with stems sprawling to rising up, most parts glandular-velvet-hairy, sometimes prominently so, occasionally apparently eglandular. Flowers are maroon, magenta, purplish red (rarely white or pink), up to 2-2.5 mm. Stamens are 3, 1.5-4.5 mm. Flowers are borne mostly at branch-ends, upper leaves reduced to form rising up panicle, 2-8-flowered clusters. Flower-stalks are up to 1 mm. Leaf-stalks are well defined, up to 2.5 cm; leaf blade very variable, lanceshaped to nearly round, to 1.8-6 x 1-5.5 cm, base wedge-shaped to shallowly heart-shaped, margin obscurely sinuate, tip rounded to pointed. Fruit is spindle-shaped, 3-3.5 mm, obviously 5-ribbed, usually glandular hairy. Scarlet Spiderling is native to the American continents, naturalized in India, Africa and Australia.

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