Habit: Perennial herb < 0.5 m; hairs stinging, nettle-like; monoecious.
Stem: spreading to erect, branched, sometimes twining.
Leaf: cauline, alternate; stipules persistent.
Inflorescence: raceme, terminal or opposite leaf; staminate flowers distal to pistillate flowers.
Staminate Flower: sepals [3]4--5; stamens 3--6[50]; nectary 0.
Pistillate Flower: sepals 5[4--8]; ovary 3-chambered, styles simple, +- fused at base.
Fruit: +- spheric.
Seed: smooth or +- rough; scar not appendaged.
Species In Genus: +- 100 species: tropics, warm temperate worldwide.
Etymology: (Tragus, name for Hieronymus Bock, German herbalist, 1498--1554)
Jepson eFlora Author: Mark H. Mayfield & Grady L. Webster
Reference: Miller & Webster 1967 Rhodora 69:241--305
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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