Suessenguthiella scleranthoides (Sond.) Friedrich

A prostrate many-stemmed annual with a tap root. Stems up to 25 cm long, with leaves in whorls separated by internodes 0.5-1 cm long. Leaves 6 in a whorl, ascending or appressed, revolute or rolled, 0.4-0.7 cm long, rather rigid, with a hair-point 1-3 mm long. Stipules 2-4 mm long, white, entire at the base, in the upper part palmately divided into rather rigid lobes or stout hairs. Flowers in axillary groups of 3, rarely 1, 2 or 5, shorter than the leaves. Pedicels 0.5-2 mm long. Perianth segments about 3 mm long, green with a white margin, hooded, produced behind the tip into a rigid point 1-1.5 mm long, the point either erect or curved outwards. Disc yellow-orange, very small and withering away early. Fruit 4-5 mm long, 3-angled, narrowed at the top, longer than the perianth. Seeds brown, slightly granular, with a thickened border.