Perennial with a ± woody rootstock. Stems ± much-branched, prostrate, ascending or scrambling, 150-500(600) mm long, often purplish, (0.7)1-1.5 mm in diam., with 4 ± distinct, sometimes whitish angles, hairy with short, spreading white hairs, glabrous or nearly so. Longest internodes 10-35(40) mm. Middle cauline leaves in whorls of 6, 1-nerved, (5)6-8(11) x (1.5)2-3.5(4.5) mm, oblanceolate or ± lanceolate, with a distinct hyaline point at the apex; with spreading, white hairs on both surfaces and the slightly reflexed margins or glabrous (or nearly so). Synflorescences ± cylindrical, much reduced; paracladia with 3-6 flowers arranged in groups of 3; peduncles (4)5-10 mm, thickish, hairy or glabrous, pedicels with (0)1-2 ± small, lanceolate, hairy or glabrous bracts, (3)4-6(8) mm, slightly enlongating after anthesis, thickish to ± filiform, hairy or glabrous, divaricate in fruit. Flowers strongly protandrous, 4-merous; corolla 3-4 mm in diam., rotate, usually a little hairy outside, whitish-yellow, creamy-yellow or purplish; lobes longer than wide, ± ovate, acute; stamina nearly as long as the corolla lobes, filaments ± filiform, anthers small, elliptic; styles ca. 2/3 fused, less than 1 mm long, free ends arching downward. Fruits dry, wrinkled, with short, straight hairs or glabrous; mericarps subglobose to ± reniform, each 2-2.5(3) mm wide; often only one mericarp developed. Flowering Period: (August) September to January.
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Perennial with ± woody rootstock. Stems prostrate, ascending or scrambling, 150-500(-600) mm long, ± much branched, covered with short spreading white hairs, subglabrous or glabrous, often purplish. Leaves in whorls of 6, 1-nerved, (5-)6-8(-11) x (1.5-)2-3.5(-4.5) mm, oblanceolate or ± lanceolate, with a distinct hyaline point at apex; both surfaces and slightly reflexed margins with spreading white hairs, subglabrous or glabrous. Inflorescence ± cylindrical, very reduced, flowers in groups of 3, subtended by (0-)1-2 ± small lanceolate bracts; peduncles (4-5-10 mm long, thickish, hairy or glabrous, pedicels (3-)4-6(-8) mm long, slightly elongating after anthesis, thickish to ± filiform, hairy or glabrous, divaricate in fruit. Flowers: corolla 3-4 mm in diam., usually a little hairy outside, whitish yellow, creamy yellow or purplish, lobes longer than wide, acute; stamens nearly as long as lobes; ovary c. 0.3-0.5 mm long. Fruit wrinkled, covered with short straight hairs or glabrous; mericarps subglobose to ± reniform, each 2-2.5(-3) mm in diam., often only one mericarp developed.
Scrambling, glabrescent perennial to 60 cm. Leaves in whorls of 5-11, lanceolate, margins ciliate. Flowers axillary, in threes, anthers well exserted, yellowish.
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