Herbs, creeping. Rhizomes elongate. Leaves basal; stipules caducous; petiole ca. 20 cm, hispidulous; blade suborbicular or broadly ovate, asymmetric, ca. 15 × 16.5 cm, abaxially hispidulous, adaxially glabrous or subglabrous, venation palmate, 8-veined, base oblique, deeply cordate, margin remotely denticulate, apex shortly caudate. Inflorescences ca. 12 cm tall, pubescent; bracts not seen. Staminate flowers: pedicel 5-12 mm; tepals 4, outer 2 broadly ovate, ca. 11 × 8 mm, abaxially puberulous, adaxially with purple, orbicular dots, inner 2 obovate-oblong, ca. 10 × 5 mm; stamens numerous; filaments 1.2-1.5 mm, free; anthers obovoid-oblong, ca. 1 mm, apex emarginate. Pistillate flowers: tepals unknown; ovary obovoid-oblong, densely shortly setose, 2-loculed; placentae axile, bilamellate. Capsule nodding, obovate-oblong, ca. 2 × 6-7 mm, unequally 3-winged; abaxial wing triangular; lateral wings smaller. Fl. Jun.
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