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Herbs acauline. Leaves all in a basal rosette, sessile; leaf blade elliptic-spatulate or obovate-spatulate, 1-5 × 0.8-1.5 cm, base attenuate, apex obtuse. Inflorescence a dichasium arising from a rosette of basal leaves, spreading; peduncle and pedicel wiry, stiff. Tepals 5, yellowish white, oblong, 2-3 mm. Stamens 3-5. Ovary subglobose, 3-loculed; stigmas 3, very short. Capsule subovoid or ellipsoid, ca. as long as persistent tepals. Seeds numerous, black, subreniform, granulose, 0.5-0.7 mm. Fl. and fr. almost year-round. 2n = 54.
Inflorescence of several 2–3-forked branches, erect or ascending, arising from the basal rosette; branches bearing at nodes only inconspicuous membranous brownish lanceolate bracts c. 2 mm. long.
Leaves many, fleshy, all radical, more or less appressed to the ground; laminas 6–67 × 2–20 mm., oblanceolate or obovate, entire, rounded at apex, narrowed to a sessile or sub-petiolate base.
A small glabrous pale green herb with a rosette of basal leaves and erect or ascending branching leafless inflorescences, up to 30 cm. high.
Flowers c. 3 mm. long, greenish or whitish, solitary, on pedicels 1–1·5 cm. long.
Perianth-segments 5, greenish or whitish with brownish keel.
Seeds compressed, ovate, black, finely granular.
An erect glabrous annual, 3–10 in. high
Carpels, styles and stigmas 3.
Flowers greenish-white.
Stamens 3–5.
