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Epiphytic or epilithic herb, creeping or twining and rooting at nodes. Stem minutely crisp-pubescent, internodes 0.5-3 cm long, green. Leaves alternate, slightly peltate; petiole to 2 cm long, crisp-pubescent; blade fleshy or slightly coriaceous, broadly elliptic or deltoid, 1-2 x 1-2 cm, ciliolate towards apex, apex rounded, base rounded, some hairs on young leaves only; venation obsoletely 3-5-veined. Inflorescence terminal, solitary; peduncle nodose or with 1-2 caducous bracts, not slender, to 3 cm long, crisp-pubescent, not winged, green; spike up to 1.7 cm long, pale green, densely flowered; floral bracts rounded, glabrous, glandular. Fruits basely attached, ellipsoid, brown, apex with slender beak and subapical stigma.
A comparatively small, creeping or scandent herb; stem slender, crisp-pubescent; leaves alternate, round-subdeltoid, mostly 1-2 cm. wide or occasionally up to 3 cm., apex acute or obtuse, base truncate-cordulate, palmately 3-to 5-nerved, drying rather membranous and thin, more or less crisp-pubescent on both sides; petiole 5-30 mm. long, crisp-pubescent; spikes axillary and sympodially terminal, up to 3 cm. long; peduncle 1-or rarely 2-bracted, usually about as long as the spike, crisp-pubescent; floral bracts round-peltate; fruit about 1 mm. long, ellipsoidal, stigma at the base of the slender, pointed beak.
