Creeping herbs, glabrous, conspicuously rhizophorus at the nodes, the roots fibrous. Leaves widely ovate or lance oblong, 2.5-6.0 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, cordate at the base, the lateral nerves 4-5, prom-inulous beneath, uniting to form a vein 1-5 mm from the margin, membranous, glabrescent or the costa and the veins with a few hairs with abundant cystoliths beneath; petioles 0.5-9.0 cm long, glabrous to puberulent; stipules ovate, ca. 3 mm long, obtuse, glabrescent. Inflorescences capitate umbellate, the peduncle at anthesis 1-2 mm long, elongating in fruit, to 20 mm long, the flowers usually 5-7 in a head; bracts lance oblong or lanceolate, 3.0-4.5 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; pedicels less than 1 mm long at anthesis, to 3 mm long in fruit, glabrous. Flowers with hypanthium and calyx 2.0-4.5 mm long, the calycine lobes 5, narrowly oblanceolate or lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, much longer in fruit, glabrous; corolla white, ca. 5 mm long, with hairs clustered below filament attachment, the lobes slender; stamens with filaments connate below. Fruits ovoid or globose, 3-4 mm in diam., red, often in a cluster of 3; seeds oblong, to 4 mm long, plane on one side, somewhat twisted, the ribs 3, faint.
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