Conringia orientalis

Stems erect, usually 10–50 cm high, sparingly branched, glaucous. Leaves subsessile to sessile, auriculate and stem-clasping, obovate to elliptic, to about 11 cm long, margins thin and translucent. Sepals 5–8 mm long; petals 7–14 mm long, yellowish to green-white. Fruit erect to spreading, cylindric to often quadrangular, 4–14 cm long, c. 2 mm diam.; style slender, less than 4 mm long; pedicel 5–15 mm long; seeds ovoid, 2–3 mm long, dark brown to black. Flowers spring–autumn.