Calandrinia granulifera

Ascending to erect ephemeral, stems to c. 5 cm long. Leaves basal and on flowering stems, narrowly obovoid to almost globular, the largest to c. 1 cm long, 0.5 mm diam. Flowers up to c. 10 per branch; bracts alternate; pedicels to 2 mm long, erect and rather thick in fruit; sepals ovate, very thick, 1–2 mm long in flower, enlarging to 3–4 mm before falling; petals 5–7, 2–3.5 mm long, white to pale pink; stamens 5–10; style trifid to base. Capsule ovoid, somewhat 3-angled, 2–3 mm long, blackish, shining, splitting into 3 valves in the upper third; seeds numerous, obliquely obovate-cuneate, c. 0.5 mm long, red-brown, colliculate in several dorsal lines, almost smooth on sides. Flowers Sep.–Nov.