Loeflingia hispanica L., it is an annual herb, diffusely branched, up to 10-(15) cm tall. Stem glandular pubescent, glands ± sand adherent. Leaves opposite to pseudoverticillate, sessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, 5-10 (-14) x 1-2 mm, connate mucronate-aristate, acute, ± glabrous; stipules scarious, filiform, ciliate on the margins. Inflorescence condensed or fasciculated dichasial cymes or sometimes of solitary flower. Flowers sessile; bracts leafy, scarious-ciliate on margins, setose laterally. Sepals ± carinate, 2-4 mm long, all with almost equally long, 2 setose appendages from near the base. Petals white, retuse. Stamens mostly 3, anthers sub globose. Ovary ovoid, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; style less than half the site of ovary, elongated in fruit. Capsule ovoid-subglobose or ± oblongish, membranous, c. 2-2.5 mm long, yellowish-green. Seeds ± compressed, obliquely obovate, c. 0.5 mm long, finely pilpillose, white.
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