Paronychia kapela (Hacq.) A.Kern., it is a perennial. basally woody prostrate-procumbent, caespitose and matted herb. Branches spreading to c. 25 cm, internodes glabrous to retrorsely minutely pubescent. Leaves sessile, elliptic-obovate, occasionally suborbicular or oblong-elliptic, 2-5 (-7) x 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous on both sides, ciliate at the margins; stipules 4 at each node, free lateral, narrowly ovate-lanceolate. shorter or as long as to rarely exceeding the leaves, glabrous, acute. Inflorescence dense, terminal, conspicuously globose clusters. each c. 8-15 mm in diameter. Flowers green, 2-3 mm long, rarely longer or smaller, sessile, perigynous zone densely adpressed hairy; bracts broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 5-7 x 3.5-6 mm, obtuse, completely enveloping the flowers, glabrous. Sepals linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, neither cucullate nor awned, almost equal, densely hairy outside, obtuse and somewhat incurved at the apex. Petals c. 1 mm long. Stamens with c. 0.4 mm long, orange-yellow, ovoid anthers. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles 2, free, recurved and much divergent. Utricle ovoid-subglobose, c. 1.5~2 mm long, membranous, glabrous. Seeds c. 1.25-1.5 mm long, brown.
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