Herbs, the stems slender, weak, 4-angled, much branched, hispid, Leaves 4-nate, subsessile, elliptic oblong, or ovate oblong, 1.5-2.3 cm long, 0.5-1.3 cm wide, rounded, obtuse or deltoid at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, the apiculum minute but obvious, the lateral veins 2, basal and arcuately ascending, usually with 2 other more delicate veins arising along the costa, membranous, hispid on both sides; stipules not seen. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, di-chotomously corymbose, to 7 cm long; peduncle to 4 cm long, with 2 or more frequently foliose bracts to 1/2 the length of the regular leaves, subtending a pair of branches, the flowers few. Flowers pedicellate, the pedicels 0.1-1.0 cm long; hypanthium rotund, ca. 0.7 mm in diam., the hairs abundant, strict, white, stiff, terminally uncinate, to 0.7 mm long, the calycine cup and teeth not visible; corolla greenish yellow or yellow, the tube short, the lobes 4, ovate or oblong, ca. 1 mm long, acute, pubescent inside and out. Fruits rotund or compressed rotund, didy-mous, the body 1-2 mm wide, the hairs dense, often obscuring the body, radiate, tawny, usually hooked at the apex.
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