Adenogramma glomerata Druce

A many stemmed herbaceous annual, prostrate, sprawling or semi-erect. Stems up to 50 cm long, slender, glabrous, branched. Leaves in whorls usually of 6, with many at the base. Leaves linear, flat or involute, glabrous, hair-pointed, the basal 1-3 cm long, the cauline 0.5-1.5 cm often reflexed. Flowers numerous, in the upper axils. Pedicels 1-2 mm long, shorter than the leaves. Perianth segments white with a green centre. Anthers yellow, orange or less often red. Fruit pear-shaped, slightly compressed, black when ripe, punctate, with a short usually oblique beak at the top. Perianth in fruit persistent, closely wrapping round and falling with the fruit.