Twining, tangled, yellow threadlike annual with stems 0.5 mm or less in diameter; inflorescence a glomerule of subsessile flowers on glabrous pedicels; flowers 5-merous, 2.1-4 mm long, slightly fleshy; calyx campanulate-cupulate, about 1/2 the corolla length, divided about 1/2 its length into triangular-ovate lobes, each apically enlarged to form a large, prominent, divergent, horn-like projection 0.5-0.75 mm long; corolla tube campanulate-urceolate, 1.7-2.5 mm long, the lobes triangular, more or less auriculate, acute, 0.5-0.7 mm long, 1/3-1/4 the corolla length, suberect, apically inflexed and basally overlapping; stamens included, incurved over the ovary; infrastaminal scales about reaching the filaments, united with the corolla tube for about 1/2 their length, oblong, shallowly and irregularly toothed at the truncate apex; styles distinct, 0.2-0.4 mm long, evenly filiform, barely longer than the collar-like stylopodium, the stigmas globose, capitate; capsules semi-transparent when dry, more or less papillose, globose, 0.9-1.2 mm long, indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent, enveloped by the corolla, the suture line between the two carpels not depressed, apical region of capsule thickened and raised around the style-base; seeds 2 per capsule. Flowers in September.