Adenogramma littoralis Adamson

A much branched more or less prostrate pale green annual, the older parts often orange-red. Stems slender, 5-15 cm long. Leaves in whorls of 4-6, flat, oblanceolate, 4-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, rounded at the tip. narrowed to the base, the uppermost very small. Stipules membranous, caducous. Flowers crowded at the branch tips; pedicels straight, 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth 1-1.5 mm long, the segments obtuse, hooded, the green band narrow. Anthers yellow. Fruit brown, punctate or finely rugose, rotund, slightly compressed laterally, with a distinct smooth marginal keel, the tip acute, not prolonged as a beak. Fruit closely wrapped round by and falling with the perianth.