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Information Annual herb, semi-prostrate, with branches to 45 cm long, becoming woody towards the base, pilose with short, curved, appressed hairs.Leaves with a petiole to 1.5 mm long; stipules to 1 mm long, linear, pilose; lamina to 25 × 8 mm, ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous or almost so above, thinly pilose beneath.Cymes clustered into short leafy axillary shoots; cyathia c. 1.3 × 1.25 mm with pilose barrel-shaped involucres; peduncles to 1 mm long; glands 4, minute, circular, with minute red appendages; lobes minute, triangular.Male flowers: bracteoles filamentous; stamens 1.5 mm long.Female flower: ovary pedicellate, pilose; styles 0.2–0.3 mm long, erect, bifid almost to the base.Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 1.5 mm long, 1.8 × 2 mm, acutely 3-lobed with a truncate base, densely pilose with short, curved appressed hairs.Seeds 1.1 × 0.8 mm, ovoid, 4-angled, with shallow transverse ridges, pinkish-brown.

Information Annual, with prostrate or decumbent simple or branching stems 1 1/2–10 in. long radiating from the crown of the root, minutely puberulous or subtomentose all round at the tips. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, 3/4–2 lin. broad, oblong, very obtusely rounded at the apex, oblique and rounded at the base, entire, glabrous above, thinly pubescent with minute curved hairs beneath. Stipules all free, subulate. Flowering-branchlets axillary, shorter than the leaves, with 2–5 involucres clustered among the reduced leaves or bracts. Involucres about 2/3 lin. in diam., very shortly pedunculate, obconic-campanulate, pubescent or subtomentose, with 4 glands and 5 minute lobes; glands minute, transverse, with small but distinct petaloid appendages. Capsule nearly 1 lin. in diam., somewhat acutely 3-angled, densely white-puberulous; styles very minute, about 1/8 lin. long, bifid. Seeds 1/2 lin. long, 4-angled, with 2–3 slight transverse ridges on the faces, greyish.