Perennial. Stems decumbent or suberect, 100-250 mm long, much branched, at least younger parts densely scabrous. Leaves in whorls of 6, 1-nerved; 1,5-2,5 x 0,7-1,2 mm, ± ovate-lanceolate, with a ± long whitish mucro at apex, glabrous, shiny, margins ± reflexed. Inflorescence very reduced, flowers in groups of 3-1, subtended by 4(-l) leaf-like bracts; peduncles and pedicels 0,5-2 mm long, filiform, glabrous, divaricate after anthesis. Flowers: corolla 1,5-2 mm in diam., yellowÂish, lobes much longer than wide, shortly acuÂminate; stamens c. half as long as lobes; ovary c. 0,2-0,4 mm long. Fruit glabrous, ± wrinkled; mericarps subglobose, each c. 1 mm in diam. Chromosome number: 2n = 22.
