Prostrate annual c. 20 cm diam. with many stems, sparsely or shortly pilose with simple and glandular hairs. Leaves narrowly elliptic, entire; lamina c. 3 mm long; petiole equal to lamina. Flowers in axillary glomerules c. 1 mm diam. in fruit. Terminal flower of glomerule bisexual; tepals 3, free; stamens 2; styles 2. Lateral flowers female; tepals 2, rarely 1, free, in fruit 0.5 mm long, delicate, incompletely covering fruit, the limb slightly inflated, claw linear. Pericarp adherent, prominently papillate. Seed erect, asymmetrically semi-obovoid, c. 0.3 mm long; testa reddish brown; embryo-groove along flattened side of seed; embryo lateral; radicle inferior. Tepals and seed shed as unit.
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