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Cymes condensed into very short axillary shoots with much-reduced leaf-like pubescent lanceolate bracts 2–3 mm long; cyathia subsessile, c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm with cup-shaped pubescent involucres; glands 4, to 0.5 mm wide, transversely elliptic, with usually conspicuous white or pink appendages, the 2 glands on either side of the gap through which the capsule is exserted are often larger, obliquely extended to 2 × 1.5 mm with undulate margin; lobes acutely triangular, ciliate.
Leaves with a petiole to 2 mm long; stipules 1–2 mm long, linear, entire; lamina to 30(45) × 5(7) mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute to obtuse at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, margin entire or with a few obscure teeth, upper surface glabrous when mature, lower surface with scattered appressed hairs.
Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel c. 2 mm long, 2.2 × 2.4 mm, obtusely 3-lobed, broader at the base, densely pubescent with short curved appressed hairs.
Seeds (1.2)1.7 × 1 mm, oblong-conical, 4-angled, with numerous distinct transverse ridges and wrinkles, pinkish-grey.
Female flower: ovary pedicellate, densely pubescent; styles 0.5–1.5 mm long, slender, bifid for 0.5 mm at the apex.
Erect annual herb to 30 cm high; branches spreading, pubescent with short, curved appressed hairs.
Male flowers: bracteoles deeply laciniate; stamens 2 mm long.
