A small, repent herb; stem less than 1 mm. thick, glabrous, branching, the fruiting branches 1-2 cm. long, internodes mostly less than 1 cm. long; leaves alternate, round, apex obtuse, base acutish, scarcely 5 mm. wide, loosely pilose above, glabrous beneath, ciliate, faintly 1-nerved, drying thickish, subtranslucent, apparently fleshy when living; petiole 1-2 mm. long, glabrous; spikes 1 mm. thick X 2-4 mm. long, densely flowered, terminal and axillary on short, axillary branches; peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, glabrous; bracts round-peltate; fruit subdepressed-globose, scarcely 0.5 mm. long, apex bluntly and slightly oblique, stigma nearly apical.
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