Arenaria modesta africana

Description

They are annual plants, pubescent-glandular, at least in the upper 1/2. Stems up to 15 cm high, ascending, usually branched in the upper 1/2, sometimes from the base. Leaves up to 10 mm, sharp, mucronate; the lower ones from linear-spatulate to elliptic; the linear and lanceolate averages to linear. Pedicels up to 19 mm. Pubescent-glandular chalice. Sepals 3-4 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate, without nerves or with a nerve in the lower 1/3, with scarce margin very narrow or absent. Petals of (2.2-) 3-3.5 mm, shorter or as long as the sepals, truncated or rounded at the apex, white. Anthers of 0.2 mm, globose, yellow. Capsule of (2,5-) 3-3,8 mm, approximately the length of the calyx, from oblong to ovoid, papyracea, with erect teeth. Seeds of 0.5-0, 6 (-0.75) mm, reniform, with flat or slightly concave, tuberculated faces, often papillose, black. It blooms and fruts in May.