Annual or perennial, prostrate herb. Branches shortly pubescent to pilose. Leaves linear-oblong to oblong, up to 12 mm long and 2.5 mm thick, scabridly puberulous, scabridly ciliate-margined, mucronate; stipules membranous, conspicuous, ovate-lanceolate. Bracts longer than the flowers, ovate, acute, up to 3.5 mm long. Receptacle antrorsely pubescent usually with hooked hairs. Sepals about 1.5 mm long, broadly hyaline-margined, hooded, mucronate-awned at the tip. Petals staminoide, small, subulate pegs. Stamens 5. Ovary densely papillose.