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Annual herb, semi-prostrate, with branches to 45 cm long, becoming woody towards the base, pilose with short, curved, appressed hairs.Leaves with a petiole to 1.5 mm long; stipules to 1 mm long, linear, pilose; lamina to 25 × 8 mm, ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous or almost so above, thinly pilose beneath.Cymes clustered into short leafy axillary shoots; cyathia c. 1.3 × 1.25 mm with pilose barrel-shaped involucres; peduncles to 1 mm long; glands 4, minute, circular, with minute red appendages; lobes minute, triangular.Male flowers: bracteoles filamentous; stamens 1.5 mm long.Female flower: ovary pedicellate, pilose; styles 0.2–0.3 mm long, erect, bifid almost to the base.Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 1.5 mm long, 1.8 × 2 mm, acutely 3-lobed with a truncate base, densely pilose with short, curved appressed hairs.Seeds 1.1 × 0.8 mm, ovoid, 4-angled, with shallow transverse ridges, pinkish-brown.