A viscid glandular-hairy perennial herb.. Stem more or less prostrate, becoming when older thickened and subwoody with a smooth white bark, 40 cm. long.. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Blade viscid, obovate, elliptic or oblanceolate, 15–26 mm. long, 7–12 mm. broad, entire, retuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed into the petiole below.. Petiole 2–4 mm. long, somewhat membranous-winged towards the base.. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, laxly branched, 15–35-flowered, on peduncles 3.6–6.6 cm. long.. Pedicels 2–6 mm. long.. Bracts and bracteoles small, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, membranously margined.. Flowers greenish-white.. Sepals 5, herbaceous, green with white membranous margins, ovate, 5–6 mm. long, with a prominent often recurved acumen.. Staminodes 0.. Stamens 5, free, filaments broadly dilated below.. Ovary obscurely 2-lobed, glabrous.. Mericarps about 3 mm. in diameter, wingless, smooth on the outer (upper) rounded surface except for a series of short grooves and ridges submarginal and perpendicular to the commissural faces, at the base obscurely 2-auricled laterally, auricles smooth.
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