Polycarpaea timorense
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Description
Annual herb up to 10 cm.
Leaves sessile, linear, mucronate, 3-6 by 0.5-0.7 mm, with acute apex.
Stipules scarious, oblong, 2 by 0.7 mm, acute-acuminate, with irregularly incised margin.
Sepals scarious, ovate-oblong, acute, c. 3 by 1 mm, midrib visible 1 mm up from the base.
Petals 1-nerved, elliptic-oblong, 1.2-2 by 0.3-0.7 mm, apex broadly rounded, bidentate or irregularly dentate.
Stamens 5, c. 1.5 mm;
Ovary ellipsoid, c. 0.5 mm or less;
Capsule short-stalked, ellipsoid, 1.5-2 by 0.7-1 mm.
Seeds c. 6, reniform, c. 0.5 mm.