Slender annual, delicate, caulescent herbs fo ming a few roots. Stems thin, erect or matted. Leaves cauline apetiolate, exstipulate, with circinnate vernation, patent, erect, reflexed with age; lamina linear to filiform, 2-10 cm long, 0-5-3 mm broad, apex long acuminate, margins densely studded with long tentacles bearing knob-shaped glands, these absent near the base. Inflorescences several to a stem, axillary, patent-recurved, with 3-20 flowers on upper side, scape short, rhachis elongating during flowering and fruiting, up to 15 cm long; bracts appressed to the rhachis, small; pedicels up to 2 cm in fruit; flowers small. Calyx-lobes 2-5 mm long. Petals cuneate-obovate c. 6 mm long, pink to mauve. Stamens with thin filiform filaments. Styles divided from the base, with dilated, erect, stigmatic apices. Capsule broadly oblong, 2 mm in diam; seeds gloÂbose-ellipsoid, 0-4 mm, coarsely reticulate, black, apiculate. Fig. 28 : 18.
