Bergia barklyana G.J.Leach

Prostrate perennial. Indumentum lacking, glaucous. Leaves elliptic, (8–) 12–24 mm long, 4–9 mm wide, acute, margin entire, rarely with a few inconspicuous teeth, midvein prominent. Stipules 2.5–5.2 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide. Flowers solitary; pedicel 3–8 mm long. Bracteoles like stipules, at base of pedicel. Sepals 5, narrow-ovate, 5–6 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, acuminate, glabrous, green, margin broad, entire, rarely with a few inconspicuous teeth, midvein prominent but lacking keel. Petals 5, narrow-obovate, 4.5–6 mm long, 1.6–2.2 mm wide, obtuse, ± equalling sepals, reflexed at anthesis. Stamens 10; antipetalous ones c. 3 mm long, filament flattened, narrowly dilated to c. 0.2 mm wide at base; antisepalous c. 3 mm long, filament margin recurved, broadly dilated, 0.5–1 mm wide at base. Capsule pyriform, 2.5–3 mm long, c. 2–3 mm diam., 5-locular; styles c. 1 mm long; stigmas clavate, purple. Seeds reniform, 0.5–0.6 mm long, c. 0.25 mm wide, alveolate, dark brown.

Grows in gravelly clay soil on edge of black soil plain; also grows in red sandy soils. Often in disturbed areas such as borrow pits and roadside drains.