Annual herb erect to 45 cm., the whole plant pilose with long spreading white hairs ± 1 mm. long.. Leaves obovate, to 18 × 8 mm., base very obliquely rounded, apex obtuse, margin deeply serrate with teeth 0.5 mm. long; petiole 1 mm. long; stipules free, linear, 1.25 mm. long.. Cyathia clustered in terminal and axillary cymes of 2–5 cyathia, subsessile; bracts similar to but smaller than the leaves.. Cyathia 1.5 × 1.25 mm., with barrel-shaped involucres; glands 4, erect, transversely elliptic, 0.5 mm. wide, red, with minute red 3–5-lobed appendages; involucral lobes acutely triangular, 0.5 mm. long.. Male flowers very few (± 5): bracteoles filamentous; stamens 1.75 mm. long.. Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles red, 0.75 mm. long, erect, bifid almost to the base.. Capsule just exserted on a reflexed pedicel 2 mm. long, 3-lobed, with truncate base, 2 mm. long and in diameter, densely pilose with hairs sometimes tinged red.. Seeds oblong-conical, 1.2 × 0.75 mm., pinkish brown, obscurely transversely wrinkled.
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