Herb, annual, with prostrate stems to c. 12 cm long, with simple, white, straight to somewhat curled, spreading hairs scattered to dense on young growth. Leaves shortly to manifestly petiolate; petiole c. 0.5–11 mm long; lamina mostly circular to elliptic or very widely obovate to obovate, occasionally oblanceolate, 1–15 mm long, 0.8–5 mm wide, with margin entire, with simple hairs as on branches. Flowers single, axillary, sessile. Perianth segments 5, free, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or obovate, 1.9–3 mm long, 0.6–1.1 mm wide; 2 or 3 segments mainly herbaceous but others with pronounced, whitish, scarious margins; herbaceous parts of all segments sparsely to manifestly hairy. Stamens 2. Ovary glabrous, trilocular; placentation axile. Styles 3, sessile or almost so. Capsule 1.6–3 mm long, 3-valved, enclosed within the perianth. Seeds subreniform, 0.3–0.4 mm long, shiny reddish brown, smooth or tuberculate; with a white caruncle with a slender appendage around the periphery of the seed.
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