Pharnaceum cordifolium L.

A glaborous prostrate perennial with may branching stems up to 50 cm long from a woody rootstock. Internodes 1.5-5 cm long. Leaves in whorls of 6, leathery or almost succulent, obovate subrotund or elliptical, obtuse retuse or subacute at the tip, narrowed to the base and the lower almost petiolate. Leaves often brownish or yellowish, green in shade, usually with the veins not visible. Stipules 1 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, lacerate with short acute teeth but no hairs. Inflorescence axillary, much longer than the leaves, usually forking. Peduncle 1-3 cm long. Flowers rather numerous, pseudoracemose on the branches. Pedicels 0.4-0.5 cm long. Perianth segments 3-4 mm long. Disc pink, of 3 broad flat crenulated lobes. Fruit rounded, very slightly longer than the perianth. Seeds black, shining.