Very slender, glabrous; scalelike leaves deltoid-ovate, membranous; flowers few, rather densely fascicled, short-pedicelled; calyx-segments deltoid, about 2 mm. long, united at base; corolla about 2.5 mm. long, 5-lobed to the middle, the lobes ovate, subacute, thinly membranous, the scales of the tube inside laciniate; stamens about half as long as the lobes, the anthers broadly ovate; capsules depressed-globose, about 2 mm. across, about half as long as and enveloped by the corolla; styles slender, about 1 mm. long, the stigma capitellate; seeds about 1.5 mm. across.  June-Oct.

Honshu (near seashores of centr. and w. distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, Korea, China, Malaysia to Australia, and Africa.