Erect simple or branched annual 10–30 cm. tall; branches spreading, 4-angled, shortly hispidulous.. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 1.2–6 cm. long, 1.2–9 mm. wide, acute or subacute at the apex, the actual tip ± rounded, gradually narrowed to the base, not auricled, sessile, subscabrid on the margins and single nerve beneath.. Cymes dense sessile 1–7-flowered clusters; bracteoles linear, 1.6–2 mm. long, ciliate.. Calyx green; tube urceolate, 1.5 mm. long, densely shortly papillate-pubescent; lobes 4(–5), ovate-triangular, 0.7–0.8(–1.2) mm. long and wide, apiculate at apex, widened at base, slightly joined at the extreme base to form a collar 0.6 mm. tall above the constriction of the tube, connivent in fruit, ciliate; appendages minute, forming basal ears to the lobes.. Petals not present, Stamens yellow, 4(–5); filaments inserted at unequal heights, 0.5 mm. long, included.. Ovary ellipsoid, ± 1 mm. long; style and stigma together 0.2–0.3 mm. long.. Capsule subglobose to ellipsoid, 2–3 mm. long, ± 2 mm. wide, enclosed in the calyx-tube which is constricted above it.. Seeds 0.35 mm. long.. Fig. 12/31–34, p. 39.
Home