Dysphania pumilio (R.Br.) Mosyakin & Clemants

Glandular-scaly, aromatic, annual herb puberulent with septate hairs. Stems prostrate, decumbent, occasionally erect and to c. 40 cm tall, ribbed. Petiole 0.1–1.5–(2.2) cm long, slender; lamina (0.3)–0.5–2.7–(3.5) × 0.15–1.3–(2) cm, ovate to elliptic or oblong, ± pinnatifid, sometimes purple below, puberulent, especially below; glandular scales few to many, yellow; lobes unequal; base narrow-cuneate; apex rounded to acute. Fls axillary, few to many in sessile glomerules, glandular-puberulent. Perianth segments 0.5–0.9 mm long, narrow and not touching, not keeled, mostly green, becoming white in fr. Stamen 1. Fr. incompletely invested by perianth; pericarp easily removed. Seed vertical, 0.5–0.7 mm diam., from ± globose to ± broad-elliptic; margin acute; testa shining dark brown, smooth.

[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Chenopodium pumilio R.Br.]