Sagina donatioides
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Description
Perennial herb up to 1 cm, forming dense cushions, sometimes with a few longer shoots up to 3 cm.
Leaves linear, glabrous or cili-ate along margin in lower part and on the lower side, 2-7 by 1-2 mm on the tufted, short branches, up to 12 by 1.5 mm on the elongate shoots;
Flowers terminal, solitary;
Sepals 5, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the outer side, linear ovate, 4 by 2 mm, apex acute, base thickened and saccate, margins involute.
Petals 5, glabrous, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 5-6 by 2.5-3 mm.
Stamens 10, c. 3.5 mm, filaments glabrous, slender.
Ovary glabrous, ovoid;
Capsule glabrous, ovoid-cylindrical, 2.5-3 mm long, opening by 5 obtuse valves.
Seeds reniform, 0.5 mm, light brown with dark brown papillae.