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Epiphytic or epilithic herb, creeping or hanging, sometimes mat-forming. Stem quadrangular, minutely pubescent, internodes 2-6 cm long, green brownish or reddish. Leaves opposite, basely attached; petiole 0.1-0.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely pubescent; blade fleshy coriaceous, broadly elliptic, obovate or orbicular, 1-4.5 x 0.8-2.2(-2.7) cm, margin ciliate, apex obtuse, rounded or slightly acute, base acute to rounded, dark green above, with paler veins beneath, minutely puberulent above, sparsely so and glabrescent beneath; palmately 3-veined, veins impressed above, prominent beneath. Inflorescence erect, solitary or two together, axillary or occasionally terminal; peduncle not slender, 0.5-4 cm long, pubescent, 2-bracteate, red, brownish or green; spike up to 6 cm long, green or yellow-green, laxly to moderately flowered; floral bracts rounded or oblong, glabrous, glandular; rachis strongly ridged (at least when dried). Fruits somewhat sunken when young, slightly stipitate when ripe, ovoid, smooth and shiny (in vivo) brown, upper half often grayish, verruculose or papillate, with apical stigma.
A comparatively small, repent herb, epiphytic or on rocks; stem quadrangular, 1-2 mm. thick, minutely hirtellous to glabrate; leaves opposite, or occasionally roots replacing one of the leaves, rarely ternate, elliptic, obovate, or orbicular, 10-22 mm. wide X 12-30 mm. long, apex obtuse or very slightly pointed, base acute to rounded, palmately 3-nerved, nerves impressed above and more or less salient beneath, drying coriaceous and subopaque, sparsely hirtellous or glabrate, more or less variegated when living; petiole 2-4 mm. long, hirtellous; spikes axillary or occasionally terminal, 2-3 cm. long; peduncles 2-4 cm. long, 2-bracteate near the middle, hirtellous; floral bracts round-peltate, glandular-dotted; fruit ovoid, stigma at the apex of a short, thick style.
