Cerastium illyricum Ard., it is an annual, up to 15 cm tall. dichotomously branched densely eglandular hairy herb. Stem and branches with long, simple, deflexed hairs. Leaves sessile, spathulate or narrowly obovate below, oblong to elliptic-ovate above, 5-14 x 2-5 mm. ± vaginate at the base, pilose and ± appressed hairy Flowers in lax, terminal dichasial cymes, white. Bracts lanceolate, green. Pedicels longer than sepals, elongated up to 2 cm in fruit, with deflexed appressed hairs. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, to lanceolate, 5-7 (-8) mm long, inner ones with scarious margins, acute, pilose, hairs c. 2 mm long. Petals oblong-narrowly obovate, shorter than sepals, emarginate. minutely auricled and glabrous at the base. Stamens 10, ± equal to slightly shorter than petals, filaments glabrous, anthers yellow, ovoid. Ovary ovoid-oblong, shortly stiped, glabrous; styles 5, recurved, internally stigmatic. Capsule ovoid-oblong, pale-yellow, 6-8 mm long, usually included or rarely sub exerted, dehiscing by apical pore, not or minutely 10-toothcd. Seeds obovate, c. 0.5 mm long, light brown, minutely tuberculate.
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