Compilation
Tidestromia carnosa

Herbs, annual, yellowish green, to 22 cm, glabrous or lanuginose; trichomes all candelabriform. Stems ascending or decumbent, herbaceous; buds absent on stem bases. Leaves: petiole to 1.5 cm; blade yellowish green, widely obovate, trullate, or lanceolate, 0.7–2.4 × 0.6–2.1 cm, fleshy, membranous when dry, base attenuate or oblique, glabrous or nearly so. Inflorescences 2–3-flowered; involucral leaf petiole to 0.4 cm, blade ovate, very widely ovate, narrowly elliptic, widely depressed-ovate, or obovate, 0.2–2.5 × 0.2–1.4 cm, fleshy, base attenuate or oblique, apex acute to obtuse; involucres on secondary branches formed by connation of involucral leaf bases, which become indurate and sometimes adnate with leaf bases; bracts widely ovate, 0.8–1 × 0.3–0.6 mm, apex acute or obtuse, distinctly lanuginose or glabrous; bracteoles 0.7–2 × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex acute, distinctly lanuginose or glabrous. Flowers 2–4 mm; tepals yellowish, 2–3.5 × 0.8–1.7 mm, distinctly lanuginose; staminal cup 0.5–0.6 mm; filaments 0.3–0.7 mm; anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; pseudostaminodes on short tissue lobes or absent; ovary 0.6–0.7 × 0.7–0.8 mm; style absent; stigmas 0.1–0.3 mm. Utricles 1.3–1.6 × 0.9–1.2 mm. Seeds white or brown-red, 1.5–1.8 × 1.4–1.7 mm.