Lampranthus tegens

Prostrate perennial, rooting at nodes; branches and leaves sometimes red-dotted. Leaves linear or slightly incurved at apex, triquetrous, c. 1 cm long (rarely to 2 cm), 1–3 mm wide, often glaucous. Flowers terminal on short shoots, single or occasoinally paired, 15–20 mm diam.; pedicel 5–10 mm long; receptacle obconic, c. 3 mm long; sepals triangular to ovate, c. 4 mm long, 3 broader than others and with membranous margins; staminodes pale pink, c. twice as long as sepals. Capsule obconic, c. 5 mm long, the apex convex prior to dehiscence; seeds pear-shaped, c. 1 mm long, brown. Flowers Oct.