Japan Flora: Very delicate annual, 5-15 cm. high; stems simple, filiform; scalelike leaves lanceolate, appressed, 1-3 mm. long; flowers (1)2-8, whitish, in 公 loose ter­minal cyme, the bracts simulating the scalelike leaves, the pedi­cels slender; perianth 4-5 mm. long, the outer lobes broadly deltoid, obtuse, about 0.5 mm. long, the inner ones minute, orbicular; capsules subglobose, about 2 mm. across. Sept.-Oct. Woods in the foothills.

s. Kyushu (Tanegashima). Ryukyus.