Prostrate herb. Stems densely covered with long, patent, rigid hairs. Leaves oblong to broadly spathulate, petiole 1-2 cm long, blade 3-5 by 1.5-2 cm, decurrent at base, apex rounded, scarcely acute, sometimes mucronulate, with patent, rigid hairs on white tubercles on lower side and on upper side along veins. Cymes often forked, ebracteate; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, patent hirsute. Calyx hirsute as other parts, c. 1.5 mm long, divided to base into spathulate-oblong, obtuse or acutish lobes. Corolla glabrous, tube as long as calyx, lobes rounded, suborbicular, 1.5 mm in diam. Stamens: anthers oblong, on very short filaments. Pistil: style c. 1 mm long, stigma minute, capitulate. Nutlets tetrahedral, 1 mm long, with 3 distinctly costate angles, brown, smooth, shiny, glabrous.
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