Vern.: Khatimal.

Acetosa hastiformis Love & Kapoor in Taxon 16: 521. 1967 non A. hastata Moench, Meth. 357. 1794.

Low richly branching shrub. Leaves with petioles of the same length as the balde; blade hastate, extremely variable in length and breadth, glaucous. Panicles terminal with erect-divergent, mostly simple branches. Pedicels thin, filiform, articulate near the base. External perianth segments ovate-elliptic, obtuse, hardly longer than the emargination of the valves, appressed to the margin of the valves. Valves c. 4 mm long and broad, thinly membranous, finely reticulately nerved, orbiculate-cordate in outline with a very small reflected basal grain. Nut up to 2 mm long, brown, broadest in the lower third.

Fl. Per.: June-October.

Type: Nepal, Wallich (K!).

A fairly common small shrub, growing on dry slopes, rocks and walls between 700-2500 m sometimes grows as a pure population; Distribution: N. Pakistan, NE Afghanistan, SW China.