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Annuals with erect or decumbent branches 40-120 mm long, rarely much shorter, glabrous. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 3-8(-10) x 0.5-2 mm, acute or obtuse, more or less flat above, usually strongly convex below, glabrous, very fleshy, green to reddish-brown. Inflorescence a thyrse with many dichasia, rarely reduced to one terminal flower, with pedicellate 4 or 5-merous flowers. Calyx: lobes lanceolate, 1-2(-3) mm long, acute, glabrous or with denticulate margins, slightly fleshy, green. Corolla cup-shaped, scarcely fused basally, white or cream; lobes lanceolate to broadly ovate, 1.5-3 mm long, acute to acuminate, spreading. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae T-shaped to transversely oblong-cuneate, 0.2-0.3 x 0.1-0.5 mm, usually truncate, more or less abruptly constricted downwards, almost membranous and slightly thickened towards apex, pale yellow or white. Seeds (2-)4-8(-12), released through apical pore of follicle.
Annual, succulent herb, erect or decumbent branches 0.04-0.12 m long. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, 3-8 x 0.5-2.0 mm, acute or obtuse, glabrous, fleshy, green to reddish brown. Inflorescence a thyrse with many dichasia; flowers pedicellate, 4-or 5-merous. Calyx glabrous with denticulate margins. Corolla cup-shaped, scarcely fused at base, white or cream-coloured; lobes lanceolate, 1.5-3.0 mm long, acute to acuminate, spreading. Flowering time Sept.-Nov.
Annual, with erect to decumbent branches, up to 120 mm tall. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, ± terete, 3-8 x 0.5-2 mm. Flowers in ± sessile clusters arranged along stems, rarely solitary in axils, on slender pedicels, cup-shaped, petals 1.5-3 mm long, white or cream.
Erect or sprawling annual to 12 cm. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate. Flowers in terminal and axillary cymes, cup-shaped, white, perianth 1.5-3.0 mm long.
