Glabrous (or occasionally a few fleshy setae on the upper leaf surface) perennial herbs. Stems up to 30 cm tall, one or several from a tuber, simple or branched, erect or sometimes decumbent at the base and there rooting, thick, fleshy, sometimes reddish, leafy throughout. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, membranous, brown. Leaves obliquely-ovate to obliquely ovate-lanceolate, up to 8 x 3.5 cm but more usually about 5 x 2 cm, base shallowly cordate to subtruncate, apex narrowly triangular-acute to long-attenuate and acuminate, margins rarely subentire to sinuate, more usually more or less regularly lobed or with 1 or 2 spreading lobes in the lower part of the broader half of the leaf, the narrower half lobed or not, the lobes in turn coarsely serrate, sometimes the leaf more deeply or even relatively finely dissected, somewhat fleshy, light green above, paler below, the young leaves often, the mature occasionally, white-spotted, veins green or reddish, not, or very rarely, raised below, petioles up to 9 cm long, often 4-5 cm, always decreasing in length upwards, green or reddish. Inflorescences in the upper leaf axils. Flowers up to 3 cm across, white, pink, or white tinged pink, tepals of ('male') flowers usually 2, of ('female') flowers usually 5. Fruit 3-winged, 1-2 x 1-2 cm across the expanded wings, placentae entire.
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Glabrous, herbaceous perennial, with one or several stems from a caudex, up to 0.3 m high. Leaves obliquely ovate to obliquely ovate-lanceolate, up to 80 x 35 mm, base shallowly cordate to subtruncate, apex narrowly triangular-acute to acuminate, margins ± regularly lobed, somewhat fleshy, light bright green above, paler below; petioles up to 90 mm long. Flowers up to 30 mm in diam.; male flowers with 2 tepals, female with 5. Flowering time Dec.-Mar.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems are 30 cm long. There can be one or several from a tuber.
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