Paronychia chlorothyrsa Murb., it is a much branched perennial, basally ± woody, prostrate, silvery green herb. Branches spreading to c. 15-20 cm. internodes 4-10 (-12) mm long, terete, densely retrorse hairy. Leaves sessile to sub sessile, linear-oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 4-8 (-10) x 2-3 mm, velutinous on both sides, entire, acute, neither aristate nor mucronate; stipules silvery scarious, mostly 4 at each node, free lateral, linear to narrowly lanceolate, acuminately acute, glabrous, minutely ciliolate on margins. Inflorescence dense, axillary and terminal, numerous clusters, each c. 10-15 mm in diameter. Flowers green, 4-8 mm long, sessile, perigynous zone very small, velutinous; bracts very broadly ovate, 6-8 x. 4-7 mm, brown and oblique at the base, acute-mucronate at the apex, incompletely enveloping the flowers, glabrous. Sepals linear-oblong, 4-8 x 1-1.5 mm, much unequal, 2 outer very longer than 3 inner sub equal ones, neither cucullate nor membranous on margins, awnless, velutinous on both sides, acute. Petals minute, thread-like. Stamens with c. 0.25 mm long, ovoid, yellow-orange anthers. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. style short, bifid. Utricle ovoid, c. 1.25 mm long, membranous, yellowish-brown. Seeds c. 1 mm long, yellowish-brown.
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