Epirixanthes pallida
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Description
Herb up to 15 cm, glabrous, straw-coloured.
Leaves 2-4 mm long, swollen at base.
Flowers c. 1.8 mm long, whitish.
Sepala libera.
Sepals free, unequal, the larger ones slightly cucullate, 0.8-1 mm long.
Ovary elliptic, style shorter than the ovary, subcylindrical, c. 0.2 mm long, unequally 2-lobed, the larger upper lobe stigmatic, the lower one toothlike and hollow at apex;
Fruit broadly elliptic or nearly didymous, c. 0.6 by 0.8 mm, at base tightly enclosed by the disk, the whole enclosed by the slightly longer sepals.