Annual or perennial herb, prostrate or trailing, glandular-hairy with type 1 hairs, sometimes with scattered type 2 hairs; stems slender, to 1 m or more long. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate; lamina to 3.5 cm long; petiole to 1 cm long; upper leaves reduced, often sessile. Inflorescences lateral or terminal, usually compound; basic inflorescence unit a 2-flowered umbel, sometimes a solitary flower; peduncle usually less than 5 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long, filiform, glabrous. Perianth base glandular-hairy; upper part glabrous, tubular to campanulate, c. 1.5 mm long, pink. Stamens 2 or 3, slightly exserted. Stigma included. Fruit obconical, truncate, to 5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, sparsely glandular-hairy, mucous; ribs 4 or 5, wide, flat with deep very narrow furrows giving inflated appearance to fruit.
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