Stems long prostrate or creeping, sometimes rooting, in their lower parts naked, in their distal part with a few dichotomous branches, with distichous leaves, appressed greyish strigillose. Leaves sessile, semi-amplexicaulous and nearly sheathing the stem, 1.5-2.5 by 0.4-0.7 cm, slightly emarginate at apex, in apical part appressed, towards base spreading ciliate at margin, on upper side appressed strigillose near apex, on lower side glabrous except along midrib, without lateral veins. Flowers single in the axils of leaves; pedicel 2-5 mm long, appressed strigillose. Calyx at last 6-7 mm long, cleft for two thirds, lobes bristly-ciliate, spreading in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, 3.5-4 mm long, lobes as long as tube, obovate. Stamens: anthers subsessile, c. 0.5 mm long. Pistil: style c. 1 mm long. Nutlets c. 2 mm long, pyramidal, substipitate, sharply angled ven-trally.
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