Cerastium szechuense F.N.Williams

Herbs annual, 17--20 cm tall, glandular pubescent. Stems simple or basally branched. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, apex obtuse. Cyme terminal, many flowered, inflexed after anthesis; bracts leaflike. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, margin membranous, apex acute. Petals white, narrowly elliptic-cuneate, slightly shorter than or equaling sepals, apex 2-lobed. Stamens 10. Capsule narrowly cylindric, 10-toothed, ca. 2 × as long as calyx. Seeds few.