Euphorbia serpens

Prostrate annual or perennial herb, glabrous, with slender taproot; stems to 15–50 cm long, much-branched, rooting at nodes and/or brownish root buds present on the undersurface of the node. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, suborbicular to orbicular, 2–7(–9) mm long, 2–6 mm wide, 1–1.2 times longer than wide, adaxial and abaxial surfaces green to glaucous, without red blotch, apex retuse, base asymmetric, margins entire; petioles 0.3–0.6 mm long; stipules united between petioles, broad-triangular, margin lacerate distally, 0.5–0.6 mm long. Cyathia solitary at distal nodes; peduncles 0.5–2 mm long; involucres turbinate, 0.5–0.6 mm long; glands patelliform, planar or shallowly concave, transverse-oblong in outline, c. 0.15 mm long, 0.15–0.3 mm wide, purple; gland appendages conspicuous, 0.1–0.2 mm long, 0.3–0.6 mm wide; female flowers with styles bifid for c. ¼ to ½ of their length. Capsule broad ovoid, oblate, or subglobose, 1.2–1.4 mm long, 1.3–1.7 diam., keeled, smooth, glabrous; seeds quadrangular-oblong, 0.7–1.2 mm long, 0.6–0.7 mm tangentially, 0.6–0.7 mm radially, bluntly tetraquetrous in cross-section, smooth, white to grey, caruncle absent. Flowers and fruit has been reported in Nov-Jan., and Apr., but possibly throughout the year.