Euphorbia kilwana N.E.Br.

Annual semi-prostrate herb, with branches to 25 cm. long, often red tinged, pilose with short curved adpressed hairs.. Leaves ovate-oblong, to 25 × 8 mm., base obliquely rounded to subcordate, apex obtuse to rounded, margin entire or very obscurely toothed, glabrous or almost so above, thinly pilose beneath, slightly glaucous, paler beneath; petiole to 2 mm. long, pilose; stipules lanceolate, 1 mm. long, pilose.. Cyathia ± 5 clustered together in terminal and axillary cymes, with peduncles to 1 mm. long; bracts similar to, but much smaller than the leaves.. Cyathia ± 1.3 × 1.25 mm., with barrel-shaped pilose involucres; glands 4, minute, circular, red, with minute red appendages; lobes acutely triangular, minute.. Male flowers: bracteoles filamentous; stamens 1.5 mm. long.. Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles 0.5 mm. long, erect, bifid almost to the base.. Capsule exserted on a reflexed pilose pedicel 2 mm. long, acutely 3-lobed, with truncate base, 2 × 2.5 mm., densely pilose with very short, curved, adpressed hairs.. Seeds ovoid, 1.2 mm. × 0.75 mm., pinkish brown, with 3 or 4 obscure transverse ridges.