Annual herb.. Stems simple or branched, ascending, prostrate or somewhat erect, up to 0.6 m. tall, pilose with brownish hairs.. Leaf-blade oblong-lanceolate, up to 5 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, cuneate or truncate at the base, sparingly pilose; petiole about 1 cm. long.. Inflorescence 1–3-flowered; peduncle up to 2.5 cm. long; bracts long and elliptic or small and linear; pedicels about 6–10 mm. long.. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5–6 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, acute, pilose.. Corolla white tinged bluish-lilac, about 6 mm. long.. Capsule about 6 mm. in diameter.. Seeds black, roughened, about 2 mm. long.
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