Polycarpaea repens (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf., it is a perennial, ± villous, spreading to sub erect, up to 25 cm tall, dichotomously branched shrublet. Leaves sessile, opposite to pseudoverticillate, linear-oblong to lanceolate, 6-12 x 1-2 mm, attenuate at the base, revolute on margins, mucronate at the apex, glabrescent: stipules scarious white, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3-4 x c. 1.5-2 mm long, acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescence dense, panicled dichasial cymes. Flowers whitish, c. 5 mm across; bracts similar to stipules, mucronate to aristate, smaller than flowers. Sepals 5, broadly ovate, c. 2 x 1.5 mm, median pan green with broad membranous white margins. acuminate. Petals 5, lanceolate, c. half as long as sepals, white. Stamens 5, filaments filiform, slightly shorter than and alternate with petals; anthers ovoid-oblong, c. 0.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 3-lobed with capitate stigmas. Capsule ovoid-conical, yellowish-brown, c. 1.5 mm long, enclosed by persistent sepals. Seeds obovoid-oblong, less than 1 mm long, slightly compressed.
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