Decumbent, spreading, glaucous, annual herb, to 12 cm high and 45 cm wide. Leaves with 1 pair of leaflets; petiole subterete or very narrowly winged, 3.5–14 mm long; leaflets succulent, obovate, 6–18 mm long, (2–) 4–7 mm wide, continuous with petiole and not articulated at base, obtuse-rounded at apex. Flowers solitary at each node. Pedicel 8–14 mm long in flower, erect. Sepals 5, c. 3 mm long. Petals 5, spathulate, 5–6.8 mm long, longer than sepals, yellow drying white. Stamens 10; filaments 2.2–2.4 mm long, winged below; wing tapering and entire or with 1 small apical tooth. Disc 5-lobed; lobes free, semicircular. Ovary 5-angled, 5-celled, glabrous; stigma lobed. Capsule pendent (to erect), 5-angled, 5-celled, broadly elliptic to circular, 7–11 mm long, rounded at apex; pedicel 10.5–17 mm long; fruiting style 0.5–0.9 mm long. Seeds 1 or 2 per cell, very shiny, smooth.
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