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Erect or ascending annual, 8–15(–25) cm high, branching mainly near base, dried stem to 3(–4) mm thick. Leaves alternate, 4–12 x 0.6–1.4 mm, subterete, tip acute; axils usually with prominent tuft of pale brown to whitish hairs up to 5–6(–10) mm long, sometimes plus 2 or more darker narrow scales with strongly falcate bases (outside Flora area). Involucre of up to 6 leaf-like bracts 9–20 mm long plus a dense mass of brownish hairs. Flowers often more than 5 together. Sepals 3–5 mm long, fleshy, subacute. Petals 5, bright red or, less often, orange-red (? or pinkish-/purplish-red), up to 8 x 4 mm, shorter than involucre, tip obtuse to subacute. Stamens 10–15(–25). Stigma 3–4-lobed. Capsule base c. 0.5 mm deep, 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; lid cylindrical-hemispherical with prominent style base, c. 2.5 mm high, glossy straw yellow, fragile. Seeds 0.6–0.65 mm long, dark grey, usually brightly iridescent; testa cells domed to conical with stellate-sinuate margins.

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Erect or ascending annual, 8–15(–25) cm high, branching mainly near base, dried stem to 3(–4) mm thick. Leaves alternate, 4–12 x 0.6–1.4 mm, subterete, tip acute; axils usually with prominent tuft of pale brown to whitish hairs up to 5–6(–10) mm long, sometimes plus 2 or more darker narrow scales with strongly falcate bases (outside Flora area). Involucre of up to 6 leaf-like bracts 9–20 mm long plus a dense mass of brownish hairs. Flowers often more than 5 together. Sepals 3–5 mm long, fleshy, subacute. Petals 5, bright red or, less often, orange-red (? or pinkish-/purplish-red), up to 8 x 4 mm, shorter than involucre, tip obtuse to subacute. Stamens 10–15(–25). Stigma 3–4-lobed. Capsule base c. 0.5 mm deep, 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; lid cylindrical-hemispherical with prominent style base, c. 2.5 mm high, glossy straw yellow, fragile. Seeds 0.6–0.65 mm long, dark grey, usually brightly iridescent; testa cells domed to conical with stellate-sinuate margins.

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Erect or ascending annual, 8–15(–25) cm high, branching mainly near base, dried stem to 3(–4) mm thick. Leaves alternate, 4–12 x 0.6–1.4 mm, subterete, tip acute; axils usually with prominent tuft of pale brown to whitish hairs up to 5–6(–10) mm long, sometimes plus 2 or more darker narrow scales with strongly falcate bases (outside Flora area). Involucre of up to 6 leaf-like bracts 9–20 mm long plus a dense mass of brownish hairs. Flowers often more than 5 together. Sepals 3–5 mm long, fleshy, subacute. Petals 5, bright red or, less often, orange-red (? or pinkish-/purplish-red), up to 8 x 4 mm, shorter than involucre, tip obtuse to subacute. Stamens 10–15(–25). Stigma 3–4-lobed. Capsule base c. 0.5 mm deep, 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; lid cylindrical-hemispherical with prominent style base, c. 2.5 mm high, glossy straw yellow, fragile. Seeds 0.6–0.65 mm long, dark grey, usually brightly iridescent; testa cells domed to conical with stellate-sinuate margins.