Erect or semi-prostrate to completely prostrate herb 7–60 cm. tall, with mostly numerous hairy or glabrous stems from a thick woody rootstock up to 7 cm. wide. Leaf-blades oblong-elliptic or ovate to almost round, 1.3–8.5 cm. long, 0.2–3.5 cm. wide, acute or subobtuse at the apex, rounded to subcordate at the base, mostly pubescent to densely villous, less often glabrous; petiole obsolete; stipules with ± 5 narrow segments, 3–7 mm. long, 0.3–2.5 mm. wide, from a short base to 3 mm. long. Inflorescence capitate, ± villous, branched, or spicate below, up to 7 cm. long, 4 cm. wide; peduncle 3.5–34 cm. long, often densely hairy. Calyx-tube ± 1 mm. long, 0.8–1 mm. wide, pubescent; lobes unequal, 1–2 larger and foliaceous, 0.3–1.2 cm. long, 0.5–1.5(–2) mm. wide, rest small. Corolla-tube 1.1–1.8 cm. long, 1–1.5(–2) mm. wide at the apex, pubescent outside; lobes 2.5–5 mm. long, 1–2.5 mm. wide; throat densely hairy. Style in long-styled flowers exserted 2–3 mm.; stigma 2-fid, the lobes filiform, 1–1.5 mm. long. Fruit obcordate, laterally compressed, black, 2.5–4.5 mm. long, 2–3.3 mm. wide, composed of 2 indehiscent cocci which eventually separate, pubescent. Seeds brown, almost round in outline, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, thin.
