Polycarpaea robbairea (Kuntze) Greuter & Burdet  

(Polycarpaea robbairea (Kuntze) Greauter & Burdet  in Willdenwia 12: 189 (1982

Alsine prostrata Forsskål, Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 207. 1775; Robbairea delileana Milne-Redh; Polycarpon prostrata Forsskål; Polycarpaea prostrata Kuntze (1891). 

Plants annual or perennial herb. Stems prostrate or ascending, ± woody at base, 10--25 cm, pubescent or glabrous. Leaf blade obovate or spatulate, 4-14(-25) × 2.5-5 mm, glabrous, base attenuate, apex acute. Cymes often axillary, sometimes rather lax, 2--4 cm; bracts stipulelike. Pedicel short or absent, pilose. Sepals lanceolate, 2.5-3(-4) mm, apex obtuse, ± hooded. Petals often fewer than 5, oblong, less than 1/2 as long as sepals, entire. Stamens 3(-5), shorter than sepals. Capsule ovoid, shorter than sepals. Seed light brown, cylindric, with raised lateral hylum, reticulate, ca. 0.5 mm. Fl. Feb--May, fr. May-Jun.