Herb with the stems creeping or climbing, much-branched, up to 30 cm long or more, glabrous. Leaves with the petioles up to 8 mm long (in the only Pana-manian collection, but up to 25 mm long in extra-Panamanian collections), the stipules narrowly oblong-ovate, acute, fimbrillate, up to 5 mm long and 1 mm wide; blade triangular-ovate, cordate and with broad sinuses at the base, acute at the apex, crenulate-serrulate and often with cartilaginous teeth at the margins, up to 18 mm long and 15 mm wide (usually larger in extra-Panamanian collec-tions). Flowers with the pedicels filiform, longer than the leaves, up to 25 mm long, the bracteoles subulate, ca 3 mm long; sepals narrowly ovate, acuminate, ca 4.5-5 mm long and 1.2 mm wide, the basal auricles short and rounded; corolla white with purple veins; anterior petal more or less oblong, truncate and mucronulate at the apex, ca 8.5 mm long (spur included) and 4 mm wide, very shortly calcarate; lateral and upper petals obovate, + rounded at the apex, ca 7-7.5 mm long and 2.5-3 mm wide; anthers ca 1.5 mm long, the connective appendages deltoid, acute or acuminate, ca 1.5-1.8 mm long and 1 mm wide at the base; ovary oblong-el-lipsoid, ca 1.5 mm long; style erect, terete, gradually tapering towards the apex, ca 2.5 mm long, the apex beakless. Capsule oblong-ellipsoid, ca 5 mm long, topped by the persistent style.
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