Sagina apetala Ard., it is an annual, erect, up to 15 cm tall, glabrous to slightly glandular hairy herb. Stem much branched, branches ascending 10 ± prostrate, not rooting near the base, internodes cylindrical, glabrous. Leaves opposite, linear, 5-15 x c. 1.5 mm, vaginate-connate and ± ciliate at the base, mucronate at the apex. Flowers solitary, terminal and axillary, tetramerous, c, 4 mm across; pedicel erect. as long as or longer than leaves, filiform, glabrous or glandular in the upper part. Sepals 4, ovate-oblong, 2 x 1 mm, ± cucullate at the apex, obtuse, the outer 2 mucronate, very slightly whitish membranous on margins. persistent. Petals 4, white, obovate, c. half as long as sepals, early caduceus. Stamens 4, shorter than sepals, with minute yellow anthers. Ovary 4-carpelled, ovoid, slightly stiped, glabrous; styles 4, recurved, stigmatic in the upper part. Capsule ovoid-oblong, membranous, equal to or slightly longer than spreading to adpressed sepals, dehiscing by 4-valves with truncate teeth. Seeds compressed, reniform, less than 0.4 mm long, brown.
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