Herniaria grimmii F.Herm.

A perennial herb with a thick and woody caudex; stems up to 7 cm long, prostrate, ± spreading, shortly pubescent. Leaves sessile, obovate-elliptic, mostly opposite, up to 4 x 2.5 mm, acute to subobtuse, shortly adpressed pubescent with usually arcuate-crisped hairs, quite distinct along the margin; stipules ovate-triangular, c. 1.5 x 1 mm, acute, with a densely ciliated margin. Flowers arranged in rather small, 3 to 6-flowered clusters, leaf-opposed as well as pseudo-axillary, sometimes solitary as well, 2-2.5 mm long, obovoid-obpyriform to nearly ellipsoid, narrowed downwards; receptacle obconical, c. 1 mm long, almost equalling the sepals, often subglabrous; sepals narrowly elliptical-oblong, 1.25 x 0.5-0.6 mm, subobtuse to subacute, equal or occasionally subequal, rather densely covered with (0.25-)0.4-0.45 mm long, stiff and patent hairs; sepals strongly 3-nerved (convergent at the apex), and with a distinct membranous margin; petals 0.65-0.7 mm long, filiform; filaments 0.5-0.55 mm, linear-lanceolate; anthers quadrangular, c. 0.25 mm in diam., orange. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 1.25 x 0.8 mm, somewhat papillose at the top; style (including the stigmas) 0.25-0.3 mm, shortly bilobed (c. 1/3-1/2 of its length) with small, dot-like, often divergent stigmas, occasionally suberect.