Chenopodium curvispicatum

Rather soft-stemmed shrub to c. 1 m high, usually with decurved branches. Leaves petiolate, mostly opposite, triangular, broadly hastate or semicircular, 1–1.5 cm long and wide, covered with depressed-globose vesicular hairs, usually less densely above. Inflorescence a narrow terminal panicle, usually decurved; flowers bisexual or female; tepals 5, united to about midway, densely covered on outer surface with shortly stalked, white, globose vesicular hairs, initially enclosing ovary but opening widely (to c. 6 mm diam.) with maturity to expose the yellow to deep reddish inner face; stamens 5, united into a ring at base; pericarp succulent at maturity, yellow to red. Seed horizontal, blackish, c. 1.5 mm diam., falling free from fruiting perianth Flowers mostly Mar.–Sep.