A small herb. Stems thin, almost filiform, 5-40 cm long, creeping, rooting at the nodes (or sometimes twining?), ap-pressed-pilose to glabrous. Leaves with slender petioles, ovate to nearly kidney-shaped (or linear), widely cordate at the base with rounded or obscurely angular auricles, the blade shortly attenuate into the petiole, retuse and minutely mucronate at the apex, 4-15 by 3-12 mm, glabrous above, shortly pilose beneath; petiole 3-12 mm, shortly pilose. Peduncles axillary, 2-10 mm long, 1-flowered, shortly pilose; pedicels much longer than the calyx, 4-10 mm long, glabrous; bracts minute, linear, 0.75-2 mm long. Sepals elliptic or ovate-oblong, all shortly pilose except for the glabrous margins of the inner ones; outer sepals 3-5 mm, inner ones 2½-4½ mm long. Corolla white, about twice as long as the calyx, with pilose midpetaline bands. Style articulate near its base; stigmas 4, filiform.
Pyrogenous grassland on the Fuiloro plateau at 400 m, creeping together with Goodenia koningsbergeri (Backer) Backer ex Bold, between tufts of Schoenus falcatus R. Br., Themeda australis (R. Br.) Stapf, Fimbristylis marianna Gaud., and specimens of Pime-lea sp., Alysicarpus bupleurifolius DC., Eriosema chinense Vogel, etc.
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