Cerastium glomeratum Thuill., it is an annual, up to 45 cm tall. usually yellowish glandulose herb, with l1scending to erect. sulcate branches. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate to obovate or broadly elliptic to almost orbiculate, 10-25 (-30) x 3-10 mm, attenuate at the base, apex obtuse-apiculate. Flowers in terminal, compact, dichasial clusters, white. bracts green, lanceolate. Pedicels c. 3-4 mm long, shorter than to equalling the sepals, patent galndulose. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, (3-) 4-5 mm long, narrowly scarious margined, glandular hairy outside, acute with a tuft of eglandular hairy extending beyond the tip. Petals 5, oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, as long as sepals to slightly longer or rarely absent, apically 2-fid for up to a quarter of their length, ciliate on both sides near the base. Stamens 10, filaments as long as petals, glabrous, anthers ovoid, yellow. Ovary ovoid. shortly stiped. glabrous: styles 5, stigmatic in upper part. Capsule straw coloured, narrowly cylindrical, ± curved above, 8-10 mm long, dehiscing by 10, acute teeth with revolute margins. Seeds sub reniform. pale-brown, c. 0.5 mm long, finely tuberculate.
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