Stems creeping, 20–30 feet long, 1–2 in. high, rooting at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves ovate or cordiform, obtuse or nearly rounded at the apex, reniform at the base, thinly chartaceous, glabrous or nearly so, rather paler beneath, 3/4–2 by 1/2–1 3/4 in.; petiole 3/4–3 in., glabrous or with a row of short hairs; stipules rounded, glabrous, entire, 1/12– 1/10 in. long. Flowers about 1/3 in. long, pentamerous, on very short pedicels, about 2–6 together, enclosed in a cup-shaped or hemispherical involucre nearly as long as the flowers; bracts of the involucre about 4, roundly oval, imbricated, glabrous; bracteoles absent; common peduncle 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, glabrous, terminating short leaf-bearing erect branches. Calyx green; limb with unequal subulate teeth falling short of the white glabrous corolla-limb. Fruit red, 1/4 in. diameter.
