Stems filiform, less than 1 mm in diam. Inflorescences lateral, compact glomerules, few to many flowered. Flowers sessile. Calyx cupular, 2-2.5 mm; sepals overlapping, broadly rhomboid, thickened abaxially. Corolla white to pink, campanulate, 2-2.5 mm; lobes triangular-ovate, shorter than tube. Stamens inserted at throat, shorter than corolla lobes; anthers ovate-circular, ca. as long as or shorter than filaments; scales oblong, not reaching base of filaments or ca. as long as corolla tube, apex obtuse or 2-cleft, fimbrillate. Ovary subglobose. Style ca. as long as or shorter than filiform stigmas. Capsule enclosed by withered corolla, subglobose, circumscissile. Seeds ovoid, ca. 1 mm. 2n = 14, 28.
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