Intro: Erect, short-lived perennial of swamp forests and river banks.

Stems: Stems vaguely 4-angled and simple or with alternate, divergent branches; the stem base may be woody, and leafy basal offshoots may be present.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile to short-petiolate, elliptic, 1-2 in. long, sometimes with a short spine at the tip.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters borne in upper leaf axils; pale-pink to whitish; consisting of 5-7 spreading oblong-oval petals with yellowish-green tint at the base, the same number of longer lance-shaped sepals showing between petals, a split yellow stigma and 5-7 stamens.

Fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule.

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Height: 4-15 in.

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description: Erect, short-lived perennial of swamp forests and river banks.

stems: Stems vaguely 4-angled and simple or with alternate, divergent branches; the stem base may be woody, and leafy basal offshoots may be present.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile to short-petiolate, elliptic, 1-2 in. long, sometimes with a short spine at the tip.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters borne in upper leaf axils; pale-pink to whitish; consisting of 5-7 spreading oblong-oval petals with yellowish-green tint at the base, the same number of longer lance-shaped sepals showing between petals, a split yellow stigma and 5-7 stamens.

fruits: Fruit a rounded capsule.

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