Rather robust annuals, glabrous below, upwardly becoming glandular-hairy, sometimes decumbent and rooting at the lowermost nodes. Leaves conspicuously punctate, essentially glabrous except for the strigillose margins, apically long-attenuate, the bases gradually decurrent on petioles up to 1 cm. long; blades linear to lanceolate, falcate, 6-15 cm. long, 0.5-2.0 cm. broad; ochreae 0.5-1.5 cm. long, eciliate, glabrous. Inflorescences of terminal subspicate racemes or panicles, the peduncles glandular and strigose; floriferous portions continuous, 1-6 cm. long, 5-8 mm. broad, the flowers fasciculate in eciliate imbricate ochreolae 2-3 mm. long. Flowers pink, the pedicels distally articulated and mostly included in the ochreolae; tepals 4-5, subequal, ovate, becoming 2-3 mm. long; stamens 6-8, discrete, difficultly separable from the tepals; filaments filiform or flattened, 1-2.5 mm. long; anthers less than 0.5 mm. in diameter, subrotund, versatile, thus appear-ing peltate; ovary lenticular; styles 2, about 2 mm. long, connate for about 1 mm.; stigmata capitate. Achenes lenticular, orbiculate, the beak not prominent, brown to black, dull, 2-3 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad.
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