Decumbent, spreading, annual herb, to 15 cm high, to 30 cm wide. Leaves with 1 pair of leaflets; petiole subterete or narrowly and equally winged either side, 10–11 mm long; leaflets succulent, narrowly elliptic, usually with a lobe on outer side near base, 7–12.5 mm long, c. 2–2.5 mm wide, continuous with petiole and not articulated at base, unlobed or irregularly 2-or 3-lobed at apex. Flowers solitary at each node. Pedicel 5–11 mm long in flower, erect. Sepals 5, 3–4 mm long. Petals 5, obovate to spathulate, 2–4 mm long, just longer than sepals, yellow drying white. Stamens 10; filaments 2 mm long, winged below; wing apex tapering, irregularly toothed. Disc 5-lobed; lobes free, semicircular. Ovary 5-angled, 5-celled, glabrous; stigma lobed. Capsule pendent, 5-angled, 5-celled, broadly elliptic to circular, 5–6 mm long, rounded at apex; pedicel 10–12 mm long; fruiting style 0.5 mm long. Seeds 1 or 2 per cell, very shiny, smooth.
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