Leaves with a petiole to 1 mm long; stipules linear, to 1.5 mm long; lamina to 13 × 8 mm, ovate, rounded apex, obliquely subcordate at the base, entire at the margin, glabrous.
Annual or short-lived perennial herb with a woody root up to 5 mm in diameter; branches prostrate, to 25 cm long, pubescent on the upper surface with short crisped hairs.
Capsule just exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 2 mm long, 1.8 × 1.8 mm, acutely 3-lobed with truncate base, pilose on the angles.
Seeds 1.3 × 0.7 mm, oblong-conical, sharply 4-angled, minutely pitted and wrinkled, pinkish-grey.
Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles 2 mm long, erect, free to the base.
Cymes terminal and pseudoaxillary, clustered into short leafy shoots.
Male flowers: bracteoles few, filiform; stamens many, 2.5 mm long.