Plants 0.1-0.2 m. Stems trailing, rooting, pubescent, short stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole 3-5 cm, crisped-tomentose, stipitate-glandular; blade angular-orbiculate, 3-5-lobed, cleft 1/3-2/3 to midrib, 2.5-5 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces pubescent, with sessile to short-stipitate glands, lobes cuneate-rounded, margins crenate and finely dentate-serrate, apex obtuse. Inflorescences erect to ascending, 6-20-flowered racemes, 2-5 cm, axis puberulent and stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. Pedicels jointed, 1.2-3 mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate to obovate, 2-4 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium yellowish orange, broadly saucer-shaped, ca. 1 mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, spreading, yellow-or salmon-tinged, oblong-rounded, 1.5-3 mm; petals widely separated, erect, yellow-or salmon-tinged, broadly spatulate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1-1.2 mm; nectary disc prominent, orangish, raised, angled, covering most of ovary; stamens as long as petals; filaments linear, 0.5 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow, orbiculate, 0.5 mm, apex shallowly notched; ovary stipitate-glandular; styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 1 mm, glabrous. Berries palatability not known, red, ovoid, 8-10 mm, stipitate-glandular.
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