Leaves lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, exstipulate.
Fruit a many-seeded, straight or curved, membranous, cylindric capsule, terminally dehiscent by 10 teeth. Shinners, L. H. 1966. C. brachypodum 1 Pedicels 1-3X the length of the calyx in flower, to 5X the calyx length and sharply curved below the calyx in age. C. nutans 14. Caryophyllaceae, the Pink Family 1.