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Annual herb with opposite or alternate branches and leaves, Leaves entire. Flowers small, solitary in the axils of scarious bracts, in dense sessile solitary or clustered spikes. Perianth-segments 3–4(–5), hyaline; perianth subtended by 2 very small bracteoles. Stamens 1 or 2; filaments filiform, intermediate teeth absent; anthers bilocular. Ovary with a single pendulous ovule; radicle ascending; style short; stigma capitate. Capsule delicate, irregularly rupturing. Seeds rounded, compressed; endosperm copious.
Flowers small, solitary in the axils of scarious bracts, in dense, sessile, solitary or clustered spikes.
Stamens 1 or 2; filaments filiform, intermediate pseudostaminodes absent; anthers bilocular.
Perianth segments 3–4(5), hyaline, the perianth subtended by two very small bracteoles.
Annual herb with opposite or alternate branches and leaves, leaves entire.
Ovary with a single, pendulous ovule, radicle ascending.
Seeds rounded, compressed, endosperm copious.
Capsule delicate, irregularly rupturing.
Style short, stigma capitate.
A monotypic genus.
