Prostrate annual, branching from base, papillose and with a few vesicular hairs. Leaves thick, succulent, lanceolate or rhomboid to ovate, 1–5 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, tapering to petiole 2–15 mm long. Flowers solitary or occasionally paired, sessile or almost so. Perianth segments 4, ovate, 2 c. 1 mm long, 2 smaller, papillose outside towards apex, green inside. Stamens 4, alternating with perianth lobes. Ovary papillose; styles and locules 3–6, often 4. Fruit dry, compressed, c. 4 mm long, 4–8 mm diam., with 2 large and 2 smaller woody lateral triangular wings not extending above fruit, sometimes with 4 smaller ridges between wings. Seeds 3–8, gourd-or pear-shaped, c. 2 mm long, honey-coloured.
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