Perennial herb, prostrate or decumbent, subglabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy with type 1 hairs, rarely with a few type 2 hairs at nodes; stems slender, to 60 cm long. Leaves oblong, lanceolate or ovate, obtuse or subacute; lamina to 3 cm long; petiole slender, usually less than 1 cm long, rarely to 3 cm. Inflorescence lateral, usually unbranched; basic inflorescence unit a few-flowered glomerule; peduncle approximately equal to subtending leaf, glabrous, slender to filiform; flowers 1–5, in glomerules or umbels, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Perianth glandular-hairy; upper part campanulate, c. 1.5 mm long, pale pink. Stamen 1, included. Style c. 0.5 mm long. Fruit fusiform, 3.5–6 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, mucous; ribs 4 or 5, prominent, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy; furrows wide, flat, white.
An endemic species of flood plains on clay or sand flats, or in savannah grassland, in arid regions.
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