The annual herb is 30-60 cm high, quite glabrous, stem often branched at the
base. Leaves: Numerous, sbsessile distichous often imbricating, elliptic oblong
obtuse. Stipules present, very acute. Flowers: Yellowish, very numerous,
axillary. The male flowers are one to three in number while the female flowers
are solitary in nature. Capsules: 2.5mm in diameter, depressed globose, smooth
scarcely lobed