Stems rarely entirely erect, 10-50 cm, terete, glabrous or short-hairy. Stipules 3-8 by 4-6 mm broad-ovate, roundish to acute, membranaceous, entire or the apex fringed. Petioles 2-20 cm, short-hairy; lamina usually 3-8 cm through, rarely only 1½ cm, roundish to 5-8-angular in outline, cordate, 5-8-lobate, lobes crenate to crenate-serrate, more or less triangular, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy. Inflorescences single or in groups, opposite to the leaves, sometimes united to an umbel with an involucre of few small bracts, sometimes also terminal. Peduncles 1-7 cm, rarely absent, glabrous or short-hairy. Involucres many around and be-ween the flowers, 1 by ¾ mm, ovate-acute, en-ire or base with small teeth, outer ones reflexed in ruit. Pedicels 15-50, 0-½ mm, rarely longer. Petals 1 by ½ mm, lanceolate, acute. Mericarps 1-1¼ by nearly ¾ mm, glabrous or short hirsute or even with short curved hairs, sometimes red-punc-tulate when young, red-brown to blackish when ripe.
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A soft herb. It grows as a ground cover. It has erect pieces up to 15-45 cm. The leaf stalks point upwards and are 4-25 cm long. The leaf blade is round or kidney shaped. They are 5 cm by 8 cm. They are heart shaped at the base. They have shallow lobes like fingers on a hand. The flowers are at the nodes and occur as many closely together. The flowers are greenish-white. The fruit are reddish-brown. They are about 1 mm long.
In shaded and forested places, 1-2900 m, but in the periodically dry parts of Central and E. Java not below 1000 m, rarely descending to 700 m near hot springs or along stream banks, decidedly avoiding the semi-arid regions.
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A tropical plant. In Fiji it grows in dense forest between 300-600 m altitude. In Northeastern India it grows between 1,000-2,200 m above sea level.
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