Stolons white, tan, or yellowish, 1-2.5(-3) mm diam., usually densely villous, hairs reddish brown. Flowering stems erect, branching in distal 1/10-1/4(-1/3), (1.5-)2-11(-16) cm, sparsely to densely villous especially proximally, hairs reddish brown. Leaves alternate, fleshy. Stolon leaves: petiole (7-)25-55(-68) mm, sparsely to densely villous, hairs reddish brown; blade depressed-ovate to reniform, 4-19 × 7-24 mm, base cordate or truncate, margins 5-9-crenate, usually purple-spotted, usually ciliate, hairs white, surfaces glabrous or sparsely villous, especially near petiole, hairs usually white, brown, or reddish brown, sometimes purple. Cauline leaves absent or 1(-2); petiole 3-16(-24) mm, glabrous or sparsely villous, hairs reddish brown; blade ovate to broadly ovate, reniform, or flabellate, 3.5-12 × 4.5-19 mm, base cuneate, margins 3-7-crenate, usually glabrous, sometimes villous, hairs white, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, 3-30-flowered, compact cymes; bracts green or greenish yellow, usually purple-spotted, foliaceous, usually ovate to flabellate or, rarely, elliptic, 3-13 × 2-15 mm, margins subentire or 3-7-crenate. Pedicels absent or 0.1-1.5 mm. Flowers: hypanthium green or greenish yellow, sometimes purple-spotted distally, turbinate, 1.2-2.2 × 1.8-3.5 mm, glabrous; sepals spreading, greenish yellow, purple, or reddish orange, usually purple-spotted throughout or distally, rarely not spotted, broadly ovate to depressed-ovate or nearly round, 0.9-2.3 × 1.2-3.1 mm, apex obtuse to rounded; nectary disc prominent, yellow or purple, 8-lobed; stamens 8, 0.7-0.9 mm; anthers yellow or purple, 0.2-0.3 × 0.2-0.3 mm; styles 0.5-0.9 mm. Seeds (2-)5-12, reddish brown, ovoid to ellipsoid, (0.8-)1-1.3 mm, glabrous. 2n = 24.
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