Shrublet up to 60 cm. tall; stems annual from a creeping rhizome; branchlets pubescent. Leaf-lamina ovate to broadly ovate, 2–5 × 1–4 cm., apex acute, rounded, truncate, retuse, or mucronate, margin serrulate, base cuneate, rounded, or subcordate, asymmetric to subequal, 3-nerved from base to near apex, tertiary venation reticulate, glabrous or glabrescent above, pubescent below; petiole 1–9 mm. long, pubescent; stipules spinescent, one hooked and one straight at each node or both hooked. Cymes pubescent, few-flowered; peduncle up to 5 mm. long; pedicels up to 5 mm. long. Sepals 2 mm. long, deltate, pubescent outside. Petals 2 mm. long, cucullate, unguiculate. Stamens with filaments up to 2 mm. long. Disk 2·5 mm. in diam., obscurely 5-lobed. Ovary immersed in the disk, 2-locular; style 2-fid, up to 2 mm. long. Fruits up to 7 mm. in diam., globose, 2-seeded. Seeds up to 5 × 5 mm., compressed.
