Polymorphous, creeping and branching herb; stem terete, up to 0.5 m long, rooting at the nodes, glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, round to ovate, broad-ovate or reniform, 2-25 by 2-35 mm, cordate, truncate, or even decurrent at the base, crenate, dentate or subdentate to subentire at the margin, acute or rounded at the top, glabrous to hairy; petiole 0-25 mm, glabrous or densely hairy. Flowers 6-18, axillary, solitary. Pedicels 0.5-5(-7) cm, ebracteolate, glabrous or hairy. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate to triangular, 1-11 mm, entire to distinctly dentate with up to 3 teeth at either side, acute or blunt, glabrous to puberulous. Corolla 4.5-15 mm, outside and inside glabrous or hairy, sometimes with two gibbosities inside, dorsally split to the base or nearly so; dorsal lobes connate with the lateral ones for 1.5-5 mm, laterals connate with the ventral one for 2-12 mm; dorsal lobes lanceolate,2-14 mm long, falcate and reflexed, lateral and ventral lobes spathulate, obovate, or lanceolate, 2-12 mm, the ventral one generally broadest. Filaments 3-11 mm, very variable, free for 3/4 of their length, equal in width, sometimes narrowed to the base, or the two anteriors broader, sometimes the two anteriors adnate to the corolla, glabrous or hairy or only the two anterior ones hairy; anthers from dorsal to ventral 1-2 to 1-0.5 mm, glabrous or hairy, only those of the two anteriors with a hair tuft or with a seta and some hairs. Ovary trumpet-shaped to obconical or ovoid or campanulate, 1-4 by 1-3 mm; glabrous to densely hairy; style glabrous or sparsely pilose. Fruit an indehiscent or dehiscent capsule or a subcarnose to baccate purple fruit, (1-)6.5-16 by (1-)5-13 mm, glabrous to hairy, ellipsoid to globose, sometimes flattened at the apex. Seeds flattened-ellipsoid to ellipsoid, nearly 1 mm, brown, reticulate to fine-reticulate.
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A herb. It grows 6-50 cm high and spreads 90 cm wide. It forms a carpet. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems are reddish. They are 30 cm long. The leaves are bronze or dark green. They are almost round and are succulent. The flowers are white. They are almost without stalks. The flowers are 12 mm across. They have purple veins. There are 5 unequally spaced petals. The fruit is a large, bluish-red berry.
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