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Prostrate or sprawling herb with stout branches, papillose. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate with midvein visible below, 1–4.5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, sessile. Flowers in groups of 2–5 in upper axils, occasionally single; pedicels 4–15 mm long, papillose, elongating in fruit. Perianth segments 4, ovate, 3–4 mm long, papillose outside, yellow inside. Stamens many. Ovary papillose; styles and locules 3 or 4. Fruit with 4 large membranous wings rounded at apex and extending above fruit, cuneate at base, 8–25 mm long, 10–30 mm broad, becoming black.
Like T. spicata but branches often long and trailing through bush, leaves with margins recurving. Mainly Sept.-Nov.
Sepals free. Like T. spicata but branches often long and trailing through bush, leaves with margins recurving.
A herb.
