Annual with 1-8 flowering shoots from a rosette. Flowering shoots up to 15 cm long, usually spreading in a circle, rarely erect. Basal leaves petiolate, the blades oblong or elliptical, 0.5-2 cm long, 0.3-0.7 cm wide, acute, usually hair-pointed, the petioles 0.3-1 cm long [as 'lon']. Stipules cut into narrow lobes or coarse threads, half as long as the petioles. Stem leaves not petiolate, linear or narrow-oblanceolate, 0.4-1.2 cm long, in whorls of 8; stipules about 2 mm long. Flowering shoots with 1-3 whorls of leaves separated by internodes 3-5 cm long. Inflorescence dichasial; pedicels slender, 3-5 mm long. Perianth about 3 mm long, funnel-shaped, green or brown, the free lobes as long as the tube, cucullate, white-edged. Stigmas very short. Fruit slightly longer than the perianth. Seeds compressed, minutely granulate.
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