Creeping herbs, the stems weak, glabrous, often farinose. Leaves 1-4 at a node, cordate or ovate cordate, 2-9 cm long, 1.0-8.5 cm wide, occasionally wider than long, acute at the apex, cordate at the base, the auricles not overlapping, occasionally inequilateral, the costa plane above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 4-6, the intervenal areas reticulate, papyraceous, glabrous above, glabres-cent beneath, the cystoliths not evident; petioles weak, flexuous, 0.8-14.0 cm long, rubescent, pubescent; stipules not seen. Inflorescences with peduncles 0.3-3.5 cm long, much longer in fruit, puberulous, the flowers few, aggregated ter-minally in clusters to 0.8 cm wide; bracts lanceolate, to 3 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium rectangular, ca. 1.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, the calycine cup ca. 1 mm long, stiffly petaloid, glabrous outside and inside, with a few glands proxi-mally within, these separate or clustered in 2's or 3's, oblong, ca. 0.1 mm long, mostly obtuse, the teeth 5, linear lanceolate, slightly unequal, 2.2-3 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide; corolla white, not seen; stamens not seen; ovarian disc hemispher-ical, to 0.8 mm long, smooth and glandular shiny, the style slender, to 3 mm long, glabrous, the stigmas 2, digitiform, ca. 0.8 mm long. Fruits (usually 2 maturing), ovoid, to 1 cm long, glabrous, the calyx persistent, 1-2 mm long.
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