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Flowers sessile at the ends of the branches or in elongated racemes; bracts membranous, entire or lobed with setaceous segments.
Capsule oblong-ovoid or conical, 3–4-valved, sometimes with the valves longitudinally divided.
Ovary superior, 1-locular, multiovulate; style filiform, trifid at the apex or entire.
Seeds numerous, winged or with a minute blunt protuberance.
Stamens 5-?, united with the petals at the base.
Small perennial herbs or dwarf undershrubs.
Sepals 2, shortly united at the base.
Leaves rather fleshy, often minute.
Petals 5.
