Caulescent homophyllous annual up to 0.4 m. tall.. Stem both spreading-yellow-pubescent and crisped-puberulous, and setiferous especially near the upper nodes; setae yellow and bulbous-based.. Leaves subsessile or petiole up to 1.5 mm. long, linear, up to ± 10 cm. x 2–3 mm., entire and minutely substipitate-glandular, both surfaces pubescent, not setiferous.. Inflorescence racemose, up to 20 cm. long, up to 18-flowered; bracteoles 5–8 mm. long; pedicels 1–2 mm. long.. Calyx longly pubescent and shortly setiferous, tube ± 6 mm. long, hairy within on lower 2 mm.; lobes ± 4 mm. long.. Petals not seen complete.. Filaments adnate to calyx for 0.5 mm., all 7 mm. long.. Styles very short, scarcely 2 mm. long. Ovary ellipsoid, shortly and densely hirsute.. Capsule up to 6 x 5 mm., very shortly beaked, fairly densely setiferous below.. Seeds curved, ± 2.75 mm. long; aril exceeding half the length of the seed.
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