Polycarpon
Content
Description
Small annual or perennial herbs.
Leaves opposite, small or pseudo-verticillate.
Stipules scarious.
Inflorescence in dense or loose cymes.
Flowers small.
Sepals 5, free, green, carinate with scarious margin.
Petals 5 or fewer, shorter than sepals.
Stamens 5 or fewer, opposite to the sepals;
Ovary unilocular;
Capsule shorter than sepals, splitting almost to base into 3 spirally twisting valves.
Seeds ovoid to lenticular.