Perennial pale green or yellow-green herb with 1-several little-branched wiry stems to 40 cm tall, glabrous; stems striate. Leaves linear, acute, mostly 1-3 cm long, sessile; midrib decurrent; lowest leaves scale-like. Flowers solitary, axillary; peduncle 1-3 mm long, united with leaf-base; bracteoles 2, opposite, linear, 2-3 mm long; pedicel very short. Receptacle cupular-globular, 1 mm long. Tepals 1.5 mm long, oblong, united at base, finely keeled, green with white margins; apices incurved; hairs few at base behind stamens. Stamens inserted at middle of tepals. Style 1 mm long; stigma globular. Fruit globose, crowned with persistent tepals, 2 mm diam., reticulate-striate.
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