Vines, the stems weak, stramineous, angular, branching profusely, the hairs stiff, minute, reflexed, uncinate, occasionally weak and spreading, the nodes well spaced. Leaves sessile or subsessile, usually 6-8(-10) at a node, occasionally 4, linear oblong or narrowly obovate oblong, 0.4-2.0 cm long, 1.3-2.0 mm wide, rounded or acute at the apex, tapering narrowly at the base, the costa prominulous above and beneath, the hairs well spaced, uncinate, rigid, the margin often re-volute and with stiff, uncinate hairs, the blade glandular shiny, pubescent be-neath, the hairs with bulbous bases, often deciduous, the blade then granulose. Inflorescences cymose paniculate, to 2 cm long (? longer). Flowers minute, 0.6-1.5 mm long; hypanthium subrotund, ca. 0.35 in diam., pubescent; calycine cup and lobes absent; corolla white, greenish white, occasionally purple or red, the tube scarcely measurable or to 0.2 mm long, the lobes 4, (2) ovate oblong, 0.5-0.7 mm long, the tip acuminate, often deflexed adaxially, the acumen to 1/3 the length of the body of the lobe, petaloid, dorsally pubescent; stamens 4, the anthers oblong, ca. 0.2 mm long, the filaments 0.2-0.5 mm long, attached at the junction of the corolla lobes; style short, the stigmas terminal, capitate. Fruits compressed rotund, less than 1 mm long, wider than long at maturity, the hairs dense, thick, falcate, ca. 0.1 mm long.
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