Subshrubs, perennial, synoecious, 2-20 dm. Stems prostrate, creep-ing, usually with branches that form dense mats, glabrous. Leaves persistent; ocrea margins not ciliate; blade clavate to spatulate, (1.5-)2-8(-8.5) × 0.4-0.9 mm, base attenuate, margins not hyaline, apex obtuse, glabrous. Inflorescences 5-9(-13) mm; ocreola encircling rachis, only the base adnate to rachis, apex acute. Pedicels spreading in anthesis, spreading the reflexed in fruit, 0.7-1.9 mm, much longer than subtending ocreola. Flowers bisexual; outer tepals loosely appressed in anthesis, sometimes spreading in fruit, white, pink or yellow, often drying yellow, elliptic to oblong, 1.4-2.2 mm in anthesis, margins entire; inner tepals loosely appressed in anthesis and fruit, white, pink, or yellow, elliptic to suborbiculate, 1.7-2.5 mm in anthesis, margins entire; filaments dimorphic; anthers pink or yellow; styles and stigmas 0.4-0.9 mm in anthesis. Achenes mostly included, reddish brown, 3-gonous, 2.2-3.4 × 1.6-2.4 mm, dull to shiny, minutely roughened. 2n = 36.
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