Telephium sphaerospermum Boiss., it is an annual, up to 15 cm tall, glabrous-glaucous, much branched, basally ± woody herb. Stem with prostrate, cylindrical, glabrous to ± papillate shoots, spreading to c. 10-15 cm. Leaves shortly petioled, elliptic-obovate, 5-10 x 3-4 mm, attenuate at the base, acute; ± papillose; stipules scarious, white, c. 1.5 mm long, serrate. Cymes terminal, uniparous, corymbose. Flowers c. 8 mm across, white, pedicel 4-5 mm long; bracts similar to stipules. Sepals 5, oblong, 3-4 mm long, keeled, obtuse and ± cucullate at the apex, membranous margined, persistent. Petals 5, ovate-oblong, as long as sepals, obtuse. Stamens 5, shorter than petals, filaments dilated at the base; anthers ovoid, yellow. Ovary glabrous, ovoid-triangular; styles 3, less than 1 mm long. Capsule brown, 3-angled, ellipsoid-ovoid, c. 4-5 x 2.5 mm, 15-30-seeded. Seeds brown, spherical, e. 0.75 mm in diameter, not compressed, papillate.
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