I. Friis & M.G. Gilbert (1993) Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Somalia 1: 127-140
Plants annual, up to 90 cm tall, usually much branched, mealy, particularly on younger parts but rarely densely so, arely red-tinged. Leaves petiolate; petioles 16-25 mm long, winged, margins with 5-15 coarse, irregular, usually sharp teeth on each side; blades variable, commonly rhombic to ovate, rarely narrower, (15-(25-60(90) mm long, (8014-42(-70) mm wide, bases cuneate, decurrent into the petioles, tips acute. Inflorescences leafy, with divaricately branched cymes up to 5 cm long, terminal and often from upper acils. Flowers 1-1.5 mm in diameter; perianth segments 5, papillose on the margins and outer surfaces, shortly and bluntly longitudinally keeled near the tops; stamens 5. Fruits falling with the perianth, pericarp very difficult o detach from the seed; seeds 1,2-1.5 mm in diameter, black, somethat shiny, acutely keeled; testa with dense, microscopic, rounded pits.
Chenopodium murale grows in a wide variety of disturbed, sometimes poorly drained sites at 1300-1800 m. It is a cosmopolitan weed that is known from regions N1 and N2 of the Fora of Somalia.
Geed hoosaad gu’jire ah oo illaa 60 cm ah. Caleemo talantaalli ah, oo sida leebka u samaysan oo leh hareero si aan caadi ahayn miishaarta u shabbaha. Ubax yaryar oo cagaar/casuus ah oo iyaga oo xidhmooyin ah ku yaalla ruqurta laanta ama baallaha. Midho wareegsan oo leh iniinyo yaryar oo madaw dhalaalaya ah.
Sabo: Dhulka cagta lagu badiyey iyo meelaha waraabka, joog ah illaa 2300 m.
Filiqsanaanta: Xero-u-dhalad ka ah kulaalayaasha dunida qadiimka ah, imika se dhulal badan ka baxa.
Habit: annual or perennial, to 60 cm tall, much branched, farinose particularly when young.
Leaves: varying from rhombic to ovate, with with 5-25 coarse, teeth on each side.
Flowers: in compact clusters on spikelike panicle branches, farinose, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, green, remaining attached and more or less appressed in fruit
Fruits: horizontal, discoid, 1-seeded, shed with perianth attached; seeds black, shiny, 1-1.5 mm lin diameter