Bergia ammannioides

Erect, simple or few-branched annual, mostly 6–40 cm high; stems with a mixture of simple and glandular hairs, at least when young. Leaves subsessile, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 7–18 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide; margins serrulate, at least toward apex. Flowers shortly pedicellate, densely clustered in axils; sepals 5, narrow, acuminate, c. 1.5–2.5 mm long, midrib thickened, green, slightly keeled, margins thin, minutely serrulate or ciliate, often purplish; petals sub-equal to sepals, white or tinged pink, membranous; stamens and styles each 5. Capsule globular, dark reddish, slightly shorter than perianth. Seeds cylindric, c. 0.4 mm long, virtually smooth. Flowers Dec.–Apr.