Prostrate annual to 20 cm diam. with many stems, sparsely pilosulose with simple or glandular hairs. Leaves elliptic, obtuse, almost glabrous; lamina 5–10 mm long; petiole ± equal to lamina. Flowers in axillary glomerules c. 2.5 mm diam. in fruit. Terminal flower of glomerule bisexual; tepals 3, free, prominently cucullate with filiform claw; stamens 2; styles 2. Lateral flowers female; tepals 1 or 2, in fruit with white inflated limb and filamentous claw, in all c. 0.7 mm long. Pericarp adherent, minutely granulate. Seed erect, obovate to deltoid, flat, c. 0.4 mm long, slightly twisted or with sunken faces; embryo lateral, radicle inferior. Tepals and seed shed separately.
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