Paronychia brasiliana

Perennial with woody taproot; more or less pubescent. Stems prostrate, much-branching from base, to 27 cm long, internodes more or less retrorse-puberulent. Leaves sessile, linear-oblong or elliptic to oblanceolate, to 8.5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, acute, mucronate, densely scabrid-strigose; stipules acuminate, c. half the length of leaves. Inflorescence profuse, pseudo-axillary; bracts acuminate, usually not concealing flowers. Flowers 1.5–1.75 mm long; pedicels very short; calyx more or less chestnut-brown, glabrous or rarely sparsely ciliate near base, sepals obovate-oblong, strongly hooded, 1–1.4 mm long, with narrow membranous margins and slender, smooth, spreading awn 0.4–0.8 mm long; petals absent. Achene sub-globose, c. 1 mm long; seeds reddish-brown, more or less glossy, finely punctate, 0.7–0.8 mm diam. Flowers mainly Aug.–Mar.