Annual herb, erect with ascending or spreading branches, up to 15 cm high; indumentum of short curved and long straight hairs. Leaves linear, narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate or occasionally with some obovate leaves, sometimes with linear and obovate leaves on the same plant, 5–46 mm long, 2–10 mm wide; apex acute or rounded, mucro c. 0.2 mm long; petiole 0–1 mm long. Inflorescence supra-axillary or axillary, a raceme to 30 mm long, not exceeding the leaves. Pedicel to 2 mm long. Alae mostly antrorse and perpendicular in fruit (position), herbaceous, ovate, usually falcate to dimidiate, 5–8 mm long, 2.5–3.0 mm wide, densely hairy with mostly long straight hairs and scattered minute curved hairs. Corolla poorly known, yellow in bud with purple tinges in material seen; floral appendages spathulate; upper petal claw c. 0.5 mm wide. Stamens terminate at stigma, monadelphous; staminal flap c. 0.25 mm wide. Style hooked (horseshoe-shaped at apex), in dried state ± terete but dorso-ventrally flattened at base, with flat stigma along inner surface of hook. Capsule antrorse and perpendicular, rarely reflexed, ± aligned with alae, lacking wing, oblong, 4–5 mm long, 2.8–3.6 mm wide; lobe apices rounded and separated. Seed ovoid-obloid, 3.70–4.25 mm long, 1.35–1.50 mm wide, with indumentum of fine white or sometimes ferruginous hairs. Aril head helmet-shaped, 0.70–0.85 mm long, white or white and brown, with fine short hairs in central groove. Aril appendages 3, oblong, 0.8–1 mm long.
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