Prostrate annual branching from base, aromatic. Stems pilosulose with both slender and sessile to stipitate gland-tipped hairs. Leaves broadly elliptic, bluntly lobed to entire, glandular-puberulous below over veins; lamina c. 15 mm long; petiole slender c. 7 mm long. Flowers in dense axillary clusters. Tepals 5, erect. Stamen 0 or 1. Fruiting perianth bluntly stellate in T.S., c. 1 mm long, crustaceous, black, pale fawn in f. leucocarpum, firmly united below, completely covering fruit; tepals strongly and bluntly keeled, sparsely hirtellous. Pericarp transparent, adherent. Seed erect, lenticular, c. 0.5 mm long.
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