Subshrubs to 30 cm tall, prostrate. Stems basally woody, slender, flexuous, and often rooting at nodes, apically ascending, minutely white sericeous. Petiole 2-3 cm, pilose; leaf blade subcircular, broadly obovate, or rarely narrowly lanceolate, 1-2 × 0.5-0.8 cm, softly membranous, both surfaces pilose on veins, base cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded to obtuse. Spikes axillary, ca. 1 cm, 1-3-flowered; bracts surrounded by leaves, leaflike, broadly obovate to subcircular, 3-4 mm; bracteoles ovate to nearly subulate-lanceolate, small. Calyx green, ca. 5 mm, 5-lobed almost to base; lobes linear-lanceolate, midrib pilose, margins scarious, apex acuminate. Corolla white (reportedly), ca. 9 mm, outside sparsely pilose. Mature capsule not seen. Fl. Sep.
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