Polycarpaea
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Description
Annual or perennial herbs.
Leaves stipulate, small, opposite or pseudoverticillate in lower part.
Stipules scarious.
Inflorescences terminal, dense or lax.
Flowers small, bisexual, sometimes perigynous;
Sepals entirely scarious, white, not carinate.
Petals 5, entire, emarginate or denticulate.
Stamens 5 (sometimes fewer), filaments inserted below a disc.
Ovary unilocular, ovules few to many;
Fruit a capsule dehiscing by 3 valves.
Seeds tiny, reniform, translucent.