Haloragis aspera

Perennial herb 12–35 cm tall, procumbent or erect; rootstock deeply rhizomatous; stems annual, smooth, with spreading uncinate 2–4-celled hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrow-ovate, 0.7–4 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, scabrous, sessile, subglaucous, margins thickened, entire or coarsely dentate; bracts lanceolate to narrow-ovate, 2–17 mm long, entire or serrate, scabrous; bracteoles linear, 1.2–1.4 mm long, entire, white to brown. Inflorescence 3–5-flowered; pedicels 0.1–0.2 mm long; sepals 4, green, triangular, 1.5–1.7 mm long; petals 4, green to red, 2.1–4 mm long; stamens 8; ovary 4-celled, globular, 1.4–1.5 mm long, smooth, scabrous, styles 4, stigmas red-purple. Fruit globular to pyriform or ovoid, 1 to 3 per axil, 2.5–3 mm long, 1.8–3 mm diam., silver-grey to reddish-brown, weakly 4–8-ribbed in upper half, lower half verrucose, glabrous or scabrous. Flowers mainly Oct.–Mar.