Prostrate to erect annual or short-lived perennial to 15 cm high, sparsely covered with sessile or stipitate gland-tipped hairs. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic, entire; lamina c. 5 mm long; petiole slender, c. ½ length of lamina. Flowers in axillary glomerules. Terminal flower of glomerule bisexual; tepals 3, obovate, c. 0.7 mm long, fleshy except scarious margin, glabrous or almost so, free or shortly united; stamens 2; style 1 or 2. Lateral flowers of glomerule female; tepals 1 or 2 with a white bladdery hooded limb, the claw narrow; styles 1 or 2. Fruiting tepals 0.7–1 mm long; limb inflated and fungoid covering fruit. Pericarp dull, adherent, puncticulate, papillate, or granulate. Seed erect, bluntly ellipsoidal or compressed-obovoid, c. 0.5 mm long; embryo slightly curved on dorsal-lateral margin beneath embryo-groove; radicle inferior.
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