Diplaspis nivis

Herb to 12 cm high. Leaf-lamina 5–15 mm diam., cordate at base, thick-textured, stiff, paler beneath, upper surface sparsely bristly or glabrous, lower surface glabrous; margins incurved, entire to finely crenulate; petiole usually glabrous, 1–7 cm long. Umbels c. 10–20(–30)-flowered; peduncle 1–11 cm long, glabrous to sparsely bristly, elongating and becoming thickened and hollow in fruit; bracts 5–10, c. linear, 2–5 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Flowers bisexual; petals 1–1.3 mm long, white, sometimes suffused red. Fruit very flattened, mericarps broad-ovate in outline, 2.5–3 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Feb.