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Erect annual herb up to 15 cm. tall. Stem slender, unbranched or branched from the base, 4-ridged. Leaves 3–8 x 2–4 mm., ovate-elliptic acute at the apex, attenuate at the base into a short petiole. Flowers pale creamy to white, solitary, terminal; puduncles 2–7 cm. long. Calyx segments 5, 4–6 mm. long, lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, with a dorsal wing up to 0.25–0.3 mm. broad at the middle of the segments. Corolla tube 9–10 mm. long, lobes 3–3.5 mm. long, obovate, apiculate at the apex. Stamens inserted in the corolla tube near the base; filaments c. 2 mm. long; anthers, oblong-ellipsoid, 0.7–1 mm. long, with a 1–1.5 mm. long, narrowly clavate apical gland, and two minute globose, stipitate, basal glands. Ovary c. 2 mm. in diam.; style c. 1.8 mm. long; stigma c. 1 mm. long, clavate, papillate. Capsule 4–5.5 x 3–3.5 mm., ellipsoid. Seeds 0.2–0.25 mm. in diam., cubical; testa faveolate.

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Erect annual herb up to 15 cm. tall. Stem slender, unbranched or branched from the base, 4-ridged. Leaves 3–8 x 2–4 mm., ovate-elliptic acute at the apex, attenuate at the base into a short petiole. Flowers pale creamy to white, solitary, terminal; puduncles 2–7 cm. long. Calyx segments 5, 4–6 mm. long, lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, with a dorsal wing up to 0.25–0.3 mm. broad at the middle of the segments. Corolla tube 9–10 mm. long, lobes 3–3.5 mm. long, obovate, apiculate at the apex. Stamens inserted in the corolla tube near the base; filaments c. 2 mm. long; anthers, oblong-ellipsoid, 0.7–1 mm. long, with a 1–1.5 mm. long, narrowly clavate apical gland, and two minute globose, stipitate, basal glands. Ovary c. 2 mm. in diam.; style c. 1.8 mm. long; stigma c. 1 mm. long, clavate, papillate. Capsule 4–5.5 x 3–3.5 mm., ellipsoid. Seeds 0.2–0.25 mm. in diam., cubical; testa faveolate.