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Terrestrial herb, non-creeping, suberect or ascending up to 9 cm, not rooting at nodes. Stem minutely hirtellous (spreading hairs 0.1 mm long); upper internodes 4-10 mm long. Uppermost leaves opposite, the others alternate; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, minutely hirtellous; blade basely attached or slightly peltate, fleshy-membranous, oblately suborbicular, 0.5-0.8 x 0.5-1 cm, margin not ciliate, apex emarginate with some hairs at notch, base rounded or subtruncate, glabrous above, minutely hirtellous at base below; palmately 3-5-veined. Inflorescence terminal opposite the uppermost leaves, erect, solitary; peduncle 0.3-0.5(-2) cm long, minutely hirtellous, without bracts; spike with scattered flowers, 0.6-3 cm long; floral bracts rounded, umbonate with pale margin, 0.3 mm in diam.; rachis glabrous. Fruits stipitate pale brown, smooth, oblong-ellipsoid, 1-1.1 x 0.5 mm, crowned with a persistent, conic style, stigma apical, mammiform.
