Prostrate branching annual, with branches ± 15 cm. long covered in curved adpressed hairs which are absent on the under surface of at least the lower half of the branches.. Leaves subsessile, obovate, to 10 × 6 mm., base very obliquely rounded, apex rounded, margin obscurely denticulate around the apex, glabrous, the lower surface tinged red; stipules free, broadly triangular, 0.4 × 0.4 mm., deeply toothed.. Cyathia solitary on peduncles 1 mm. long, terminal and pseudoaxillary on leafy shoots, 1.5 × 1.5 mm., with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, transversely elliptic, ± 0.8 mm. wide, with 4–6-lobed white appendages, 0.4 mm. wide; involucral lobes minute, triangular, ciliate.. Male flowers: bracteoles laciniate; stamens 1.5 mm. long.. Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles 0.3 mm. long, erect, bifid to halfway with thickened apices.. Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel 3.5 mm. long, 3-lobed, 1.8 × 1.8 mm., somewhat constricted about the middle, the lower half with a row of very short adpressed hairs along each side of the sutures and a fleshy hollow swelling between them.. Seeds contained in the lower half of the capsule, conical, 0.8 × 0.6 mm., pinkish brown, with a few very obscure transverse ridges and grooves.
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