Decumbent or trailing herb (small young plants erect), finely pubescent with yellow or reddish hairs, sometimes glabrate, succulent, to 1.5 m, branched; in-ternodes 2-10 cm long. Leaves with leaflets oblong to suborbicular, cuneate, widely notched, mucronate, 10-35 mm long, 8-23 mm wide, dark green above, violaceous below, the midrib pubescent below, lateral leaflets asymmetric; peti-oles violaceous 2-4 cm long; stipules reddish, hyaline, connate except at the