Plant: annual herb; stellate hairs; STEMS several from base, prostrate to ascending, to 35 cm long Leaves: alternate to whorled, unequal, petiolate, exstipulate, the margins entire or toothed, the blade spatulate, elliptic or obovate to orbicular, the base cuneate, to 26 mm long, to 1.4 cm wide Inflorescence: axillary or terminal, a diffuse to congested cyme or umbel Flowers: FLOWERS mostly 4-10 per cluster, the pedicels to 2 mm long; sepals 4-5 (-6) mm long, the apex attenuate or long-acuminate; pistil 3 (-5) -carpellate, the stigmas sessile or subsessile Fruit: FRUITS capsules, slightly shorter than the sepals in ours. SEEDS numerous, reniform, the funiculus persistent, the aril conspicuous, white, with a filiform appendage coiled around the seed, ca. 0.4-0.5 mm long, red-brown, smooth but visibly reticulate with a cross-hatched pattern Misc: Disturbed areas, often associated with stock tanks; 250-1200 m (900-4000 ft.); May-Oct