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*An annual herb, 10-100 cm tall, glabrous or with a few short appressed hairs, stems sharply angled, hollow, lower branches sometimes prostrate and rooting at the nodes; leaves .*Leaves ovate to lanceolate, sometimes linear, 4-15 cm × 2.5-10 cm, margins irregularly toothed or entire, short hairy, petiole 2-11 cm long; flowers .*Flowers solitary, flowering calyx 3-5 mm long, fruiting calyx 2-4 cm long, greenish-yellow with purple ribs, corolla 5-10 mm long, up to 1 cm in diameter, pale yellow, with or without dark spots and a triangular spot of dense short hairs at the throat; anthers entirely pale blue; berry .*Berry 10-16 mm in diameter, yellow.  ''P. angulata'' occurs in sunny to somewhat shaded, not too dry fertile spots in fields, gardens, wastelands, fallow fields, along roads, in open forests and forest margins, up to 1500 m altitude.

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*Slamet Sutanti Budi Rahayu