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These plants were growing in sandy soil, in full sun. Stems were becoming red with age. They were upright annuals, modestly branched to unbranched and were 2-10 cm tall. All plant parts had red stipitate glands. Basal leaves were withered. Cauline leaves were fleshy, elliptic, unlobed or with 1-2 lateral lobes. Unlobed leaves were about 4 mm long by 1.5 mm wide. Flowers had 5 white petals about 2.5 mm long. Sepals averaged 1.3 mm long. Ovaries were mostly inferior, with 2-locular carpels. There were 10 stamens, 2 stigmas and 2 styles, with styles at opposite ends of the ovary. Each flower produced 50-80 brown seeds that averaged 0.3 mm long by 0.15-0.20 mm wide. Seeds were strongly papillate in vertical rows.

basal rosettes, with flowering culms just starting to emerge from the center of some rosettes. With Drosera capillaris, Rhynchospora chapmanii, dried culms of Scleria muehlenbergii, and possibly a few other species