Cerastium siculum Guss., it is an annual, erect to ascending, up to 12 cm tall herb, with minute glandular and sparsely eglandular simple hairs on stem. Leaves oblanceolate (basal) or ovate-lanceolate to broadly elliptical (cauline), 5·15 x 2-7 mm, hairy, obtuse or acute. Flowers in terminal, dense dichasial clusters. Bracts green, glabrous above. Pedicels shorter than the sepals, hairy. Sepals 5, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-6 mm long, glandular and simple hairy outside, hairs not surpassing the scarious acute apex. Petals oblong, shorter than sepals, 2-fid at the apex to c. 1/4 of their length. Stamens 10, rarely less, filaments shorter than petals, filiform; anthers yellow, ovoid. Ovary ovoid-oblong, glabrous; styles 5, arcuate-divergent. Capsule pale-yellow, conical-cylindrical, 7-8 mm long, exserted, dehiscing by 10, apical, revolute margined teeth. Seeds rounded-reniform, 0.4-0.5 mm long, pale-brown, finely tubercled.
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