Heliotropium elongatum
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Description
Annual herb up to 60 cm high.
Leaves: petiole 1.5-4 cm long; blade ovate, 2.5-8 (-10) by 1.5-6 cm, base horizontally truncate, long decurrent, apex acute, with 4-5 primary nerves on each side and a network of nerves of higher order, short strigillose on upper, appressed hairy with longer bristles along main nerves on the lower side.
Inflorescence simple, spike-like, elongate, ebracteate.
Stamens: anthers subsessile at about the middle of the tube.
Fruit shallowly two-lobed with margins of lobes meeting each other above middle of fruit, parting into 2 two-locular halves.