Prostrate, villous herb; stems 15–40 cm long. Leaves in unequal pairs or alternate, with (3–) 5–6 (–8) pairs of leaflets; petiole 6–16.5 mm long; leaflets elliptic, sometimes narrowly so, 7–21 mm long, 2.5–8 mm wide, rounded-oblique at base, rounded or acute, very shortly acuminate, glabrous adaxially, sparsely to densely villous abaxially, concolorous. Flowering pedicel 10–15.5 mm long, upright. Sepals c. 10 mm long, glabrous adaxially except for pubescent apex, villous abaxially. Petals ovate, 10–14 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 10, all fertile; filaments 6.5 mm long. Ovary densely white-pubescent; ovules 2 per cell; style (including stigma) 3.5 mm long in flower; stigma 1.5 mm long. Fruit 20–32 mm high, 20–45 mm wide, 5-lobed; lobes inflated, dissociating into 5 cocci; fruiting pedicel 16–17 mm long. Cocci 2-winged, densely pubescent between wings dorsally, sparsely pubescent on wings, lacking spines.
Usually in red sand or clay-sand in Triodia,often appearing after fire, sometimes also in disturbed localities.
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