Prostrate herb with branches to 20 cm long, monoecious. Leaves small, sessile or shortly petiolate, sparsely to moderately scurfy on both surfaces; lamina ovate to broadly elliptic or rhomboid, the broader leaves sessile, 5–10 mm long, remotely sinuate-dentate. Flowers in axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles scurfy, sessile slender stipitate, rhomboid to fan-shaped, 2–3 mm long and wide; basal half united into a deltoid tube prominently keeled on either side; distal half free, herbaceous, deeply divided into 3–5 narrowly triangular lobes. Seed circular, prominently biconvex corresponding to keels of bracteoles; radicle lateral, erect.
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