Nenax coronata Puff

Dwarf shrub, ± erect, often with thick, woody root. Stems c. 0.25-0.4 m long, much-branched, branches usually single at nodes, branching often pseudodichotomous and ± irregular. Leaves decussate; blades (3-)5-9(-11) x 0.7-1 mm, linear, needle-like and ± rigid, semiterete to ± triangular in section, glabrous or margins ± papillate, upper surface and midrib sometimes (dark) brownish red. Flowers mostly single at nodes, sometimes also terminal and overtopped by short lateral shoots arising below; corolla 5(rarely 4)-merous, yellowish(?) ('male'): tube c. 0.8 mm long, funnel-shaped, lobes 2.5-3.4(-4) x 0.6-1 mm; anthers 1.4-2.4 mm long; minute rudimentary ovary sometimes with well discernible calyx lobes ('female'): tube 0.1-0.2 mm long, lobes 0.3-0.8 x 0.1-0.2 mm; stigmas (1.5-)2-4 mm long; ovary 1.2-2 x 0.7-1 mm, with 5 conspicuous calyx lobes. Fruit dehiscent, supported by a small carpophore or carpophore sometimes ± absent, reddish brown; mericarps 3-5 x 1.9-2.5(-3) mm, oblong to obovate, glabrous or papillate, with 3 or 2 triangular calyx lobes c. 0.6-1.2 x 0.3-0.5 mm.