Semi-prostrate or decumbent, spreading, annual herb, to 16 cm high, wider than high. Leaves with 1 pair of leaflets; petiole flattened, narrowly obovate by presence of wing, 4–20 mm long; leaflets succulent, obovate, sometimes narrowly and asymmetrically so, 5–20 mm long, 2–12 mm wide, appearing articulated with petiole by the constriction of the widened petiole at its apex, emarginate at apex. Flowers paired at each node. Pedicel 2.5–3.5 mm long in flower, ?initially erect, becoming deflexed. Sepals 5, 2.5–3 mm long. Petals 5, obovate, 2.7–3.7 mm long, longer than sepals, yellow drying white. Stamens 10; filaments 1.5–1.6 mm long, winged at base; wing oblong, erose apically. Disc 5-lobed; lobes joined, semicircular. Ovary 5-angled, 5-celled, glabrous; stigma minute, 5-lobed. Capsule pendent, 5-angled, 5-celled, transversely broadly elliptic, 4.5–6 mm long, rounded at apex; pedicel 3–5 mm long; fruiting style 0.2–0.3 (–0.6) mm long. Seeds 1 per cell, smooth, black or dark brown, shiny.
Occurs in open areas, often on clay plains, alluvial flood plains or gibberplains, but also frequently found in bare areas within chenopod shrublands.
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