A. sessilis has stems up to 30 cm long, cylindrical, massive, segmented, green-yellow in color and twin-branched. Compound leaves, opposite each other, pointed tip and base, dark green, 1-15 cm long and up to 5 cm wide. The leaf veins are pinnate.
Compound flowers, small, grain-shaped, growing in the axils of the leaves at the ends of the stems, cylindrical stalks, white or purplish. The fruit is round and black in color.
Kremah is often eaten as a complement to ulam, pecel, urap dishes and eaten raw after being flushed with hot water.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Gomphrenoideae
Genus: Alternanthera
Species: Alternanthera sessilis
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