A decumbent succulent ? annual or perennial herb; stems 4-angled when dry, glabrous or pubescent, little branched, rooting at the lower nodes.. Leaves subsessile, narrowly elliptic or elliptic to obovate, oblong-ovate or spathulate, rarely broadly ovate, 0.5–3(–5) cm. long, 0.3–1.5 cm. wide, apex obtuse to subacute, base cuneate to long attenuate, margins sometimes very shallowly crenate, sometimes with numerous scattered reddish glands; petioles ± 1 mm. long, those of opposite leaves united and forming a shallow sheath around the stem.. Inflorescence a rather condensed few-flowered terminal cyme or occasionally flowers solitary in the leaf-axils; pedicels slender, 2–15(–40) mm. long, glabrous or pubescent.. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 3–3.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, shortly united at the base, glabrous or pubescent.. Petals white or pink, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-obovate, 4–6 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, obtuse or acute and minutely hooded, glabrous or pubescent.. Stamen-filaments 3–4 mm. long; anthers oblong, ± 0.4 mm. long.. Nectary scales trapeziform, widest at the apex, ± 0.5 mm. long, or obscure.. Carpels oblong, 3.5 mm. long, glabrous; style 1 mm. long.. Seeds 6–10 per carpel, broadly ellipsoid, ±0.3–0.4 mm. long, 0.2 mm. wide, tuberculate.
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