Much-branched, prostrate, annual herb with branches to 25 cm. long covered with long, spreading white hairs.. Leaves obovate to 10 × 5 mm., base very obliquely rounded, apex rounded and very obscurely toothed, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs on both surfaces; petiole to 0.5 mm. long; stipules filamentous, 0.4 mm. long.. Cyathia solitary on peduncles to 0.75 mm. long, terminal and pseudoaxillary, crowded on leafy shoots, 1.25 × 1.25 mm., with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, transversely elliptic, ± 0.6 mm. wide, with large white, lobed appendages ± 0.6 × 1.5 mm.; involucral lobes minute, triangular, ciliate.. Male flowers: bracteoles filamentous; stamens 1.25 mm. long.. Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles 0.75 mm. long, spreading, bifid to nearly halfway, with obviously thickened apices.. Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 2.5 mm. long, acutely 3-lobed, 1.25 × 1.25 mm., with a few long scattered hairs or occasionally glabrous.. Seeds oblong-conical, 0.8 × 0.4 mm., pinkish brown, with numerous shallow wrinkles.
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