Merciera tetraloba Cupido

Stems decumbent or suberect, slender, occasionally with groups of branches at end of each season’s growth. Leaves scattered, ascending, the older spreading, glabrous on abaxial surface, margins ciliate; axillary cluster of smaller leaves present; bract-like leaves, 14 mm long. Flowers tetramerous, white, occasionally with purple tips, or very rarely pale blue; hypanthium 1-2 mm long, hispid with uncinate or circinate trichomes; calyx lobes 4, 0.6-1.2 mm long, often hairy on hyaline tips and margins; corolla tube 4-6 mm long; lobes 4, ovate, 2-3 mm long, glabrous or hairy on back. Stamens 4; filaments 3.0-4.5 mm long. Style 6-10 mm long.