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Stunted, woody shrublet with annual shoots, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves alternate to subopposite, oblong to elliptic, margins revolute. Flowers in terminal and axillary umbel-like clusters on erect peduncles, white with green keel, pedicels ± 2 mm long. Mericarp never winged, ± hemispherical, surface honeycomb-like.
Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, alternate to subopposite; lamina 5–27 × 1–4 mm., linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, midrib prominent below; petiole up to 3 mm. long, enlarged at base.
Glabrous perennial herbs or subshrubs up to 40 cm. tall, woody at base, developing herbaceous shoots; stems erect or ascendent, sparingly branched, striate, minutely scaberulous or smooth.
Stunted, woody shrublet with annual shoots, to 15 cm. Leaves oblong to elliptic, margins revolute. Flowers in terminal and axillary clusters on erect peduncles, green and white.
Perianth-segments 5, 2–3 mm. long, slightly unequal, membranous, whitish, with greenish keel, broadly ovate, obtuse, slightly mucronate.
Mericarps 2–3 mm. in diameter, pitted and furrowed, sometimes very shortly tuberculate, not auriculate at base.
Flowers whitish, small, with pedicels up to 2 mm. long and membranous whitish lanceolate bracteoles.
Staminodes 0–5, shorter than the perianth-segments, evanescent, with long claw and ovate limb.
Inflorescences mostly terminal, 15–100-flowered, umbelliform, pedunculate.
Stamens (5)7, with filaments much broadened and fimbriate below.
Ovary 2-lobed, glabrous.
