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Tufted herb with wiry stems, branched. Stems black to pale brown, 8-25 cm long, sometimes sprawling, with lines of ± appressed short hairs. Lamina of lf usually broadly elliptic to rotund, rarely elliptic, 2-8 × 1-3 mm. Floral tube 0.4-0.6 mm deep, strigillose outside. Petals white, 2-2.9 × 0.8-1.9 mm. Capsules with conspicuous bands of strigillose hairs along the lines of dehiscence, thus appearing striped light and dark, rarely strigillose all over, 0.9-2.2 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.2-1.6 cm long.
