herbaceous, perennial, prostrate, many-stemmed; stems filiform, much branched; leaves small, oval, elliptical, oblong, or somewhat linear, pointless or mucronulate, with thick margins, whorled, spreading or reflexed; flowers sessile, densely crowded at the nodes. Aspect of Valantia muralis. Stems many, from a thick root, elongate, 3–10 inches long, weak, somewhat angular, whitish, oppositely branched. Internodes of stem and branches 1/2–1 inch long; on the flowering ramuli much shorter. Leaves 1–2 lines long, 6–15 in a whorl, rigid, stellately patent and reflexed, with thickened edges. Stipules scarious, ciliately lacerated, crowded, 1/2 the length of the leaves. Flowers minute; the glomerules 3–10 flowered. Sepals 1/2 line long. Capsule 2–4 celled, very small, globose, angled, 2–4 seeded, sometimes abortively one-seeded. Seed globulose, granulated.
