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Leaves alternate, sometimes the uppermost opposite; petiole (1)3–8(10) mm long, glabrous, lamina (7)1–25(30) x (4)6–15(17) mm, obovate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, often varying in shape on the same branch, obtuse to rounded and sometimes emarginate at the apex, cuneate to broadly cuneate or almost rounded at the base, glabrous, sometimes ± pellucid punctate on both surfaces, glabrous, rarely with some scattered hairs, fleshy with a conspicuous midrib, 2–3 pairs of lateral nerves and a marginal nerve, venation scarcely visible or lacking; margins ciliate particularly toward the apex.
Succulent herb, 0.05-0.20 m high; stems rooting at nodes, mat-forming, glabrous. Leaves obovate, succulent, base cuneate, apex rounded to emarginate, dark green; petioles up to 13 mm long. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, slender spikes with widely spaced flowers, fertile portion up to 25 mm long in flower, 45 mm in fruit. Flowering time Nov.-June. Fruit ± 1 mm long.
Inflorescences spicate; spikes terminal or axillary, solitary or rarely 2–3-clustered, greenish; rhachis (5)10–40(50) mm long, glabrous, slightly thicker than the glabrous (3)4–15 mm long peduncle.
Soft, creeping perennial to 20 cm, rooting from the nodes. Leaves slightly succulent, obovate, glossy, minutely ciliolate along apex. Flowers in thread-like, terminal spikes, green.
Stems creeping, rooting at the lower nodes, with or without leaves; branches simple or ± dichotomously branched, creeping or ascending to erect, glabrous.
Fruit 0.4–0.7 mm long, ovoid to spheric, bright brown, covered with whitish viscous glands, shortly pseudopedicellate, with a subapical stigma.
Mat-forming succulent herb, up to 150 mm tall, epiphyte. Leaves alternate, elliptic. Spikes light green.
A perennial slightly succulent herb (4)7–30 cm tall.
Ovary ovoid ± sunk into the rhachis.
Small epiphyte with erect branches.
Bracts glandular-punctate.
