Bergia anagalloides (Fenzl) E.Mey. ex Walp.

Small, prostrate annual with many radiating branches, somewhat woody at the base. Roots spongy, with a long taproot (fide Bryant). Stems slender, smooth or with indistinct scabrid ridges. Leaves narrowly obovate, subpetiolate, up to 3 cm long and 6 mm broad, often smaller, serrulate, nerves distinct below, soft in texture; stipules minute. Flowers solitary, axillary, evenly distributed along the stems, on firm pedicels up to 15 mm long; bracts minute or 0. Sepals narrowly ovate, acute, 2.5 mm long, hollow, green with the membranous margins often pink. Petals longer than sepals, 4 mm, oblong, obtuse, bright pink. Ovary ovoid with short arcuate styles. Capsule ovoid, 3 mm long; seed oblong, 0.4 mm, tesselate, yellow to golden brown.