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Prostrate annual herb, with branches to 15 cm. long, the whole plant puberulous with short straight hairs, or more sparsely covered with long spreading hairs and the upper surface of the leaves glabrous.. Leaves obovate or oblong-ovate, to 8 × 4.5 mm., base obliquely rounded to subcordate, apex rounded, margin entire or toothed; petiole to 1 mm. long; stipules to 1.5 mm. long, usually deeply divided into 2–4 linear teeth.. Cyathia solitary on peduncles to 0.5 mm. long, terminal and pseudoaxillary on short leafy shoots, scarcely 1 × 1 mm., with cup-shaped involucres; glands 4, minute, transversely elliptic, with very small obscurely lobed pink or white appendages; involucral lobes minute, triangular, ciliate.. Male flowers few: bracteoles filamentous; stamens 1 mm. long.. Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles minute (0.2 mm. long), spreading, bifid to halfway.. Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel 1.5 mm. long, acutely 3-lobed, 1.5 × 1.5 mm.. Seeds oblong-conical, acutely 4-angled, 1 × 0.5 mm., pinkish brown, with numerous shallow transverse wrinkles.
A small herb. The stems are 20 cm long. They are woody at the base and usually without branches. The leaves are opposite. The leaf blades are 1-8 mm long by 1-5 mm wide.
