Small annual herb, not forming mats or clumps; stems simple, to 3 cm long, slender, ± erect, not rooting at nodes; branches few and mainly from the base. Lvs connate at base, 2.5-4 × 0.8-1.5 mm, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, flattened above, ± convex beneath; apex acuminate or apiculate. Fls in small cymose clusters in lf axils, 5-merous, apparently not star-like, 2-3 mm diam., sessile or subsessile at anthesis; pedicel to 2 mm long at fruiting. Calyx lobes c. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, lanceolate to ovate, long-acuminate. Petals c. 1.5 × 0.2 mm, lanceolate, probably reddish green with a red tip, aristate, ± = calyx. Scales not seen. Follicles with tuberculate appendages on outer surface towards base. Seed c. 0.4 mm long.
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