Polygonum uysalii

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Perennial, suffrutescent with hard woody stocks at base. Stem prostrate, numerous, 9 ̶ 42 cm long, simple or branched at base, glabrous, white striate, green to grayish; internodes 1.3–16.1 mm long. Leaf 2.9–16.7 × 1.5–2.4 mm, ovate–broadly elliptic, sessile or shortly petiolate, with undulate or subrevolute margin, acute or obtuse at apex, adaxial surface of leaf prominently veined. Ochrea 2.1–6.2 mm length, tubular, dark brown at base, membranous from upper, lobe laciniate, 14–17 veined. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers axillary, 5–6 at each node. Pedicels 0.9– 1.6 mm length, unequal, surrounded by ochrea. Perianth is campanulate, tepals white-pinkish, whereas tepals are purplish in mature plants. Bracts are similar to and much smaller than stem leaf. Tepals 5, 2.3– 3.9 × 1.04–1.9 mm, oblong, obtuse at tip. Stamens 8, 0.4–1.2 mm, filaments dilated at base; anthers yellow, 0.30–0.39 mm, ovary ovate, 0.8–1 mm, styles 3, 0.20–0.23 mm, stigma capitate, 0.06–0.08 mm. Nuts trigonous, 2.04– 3.54 × 1.08–1.45 mm, brown, shining, glabrous, exerted in the persistent perianth.

Phenology: Flowering in August and September, fruiting in September–November.