A prostrate often rather thick and many-stemmed annual or perennial herb. Stem up to c. 40 cm. long, pilose, often also finely papillose. Leaves alternate, leaf-lamina 8–70 × 4–45 mm., suborbicular to oblanceolate-obovate, rounded or bluntly subacuminate at apex, decurrent into the petiole at base, ± pilose on both sides, entire, with petiole 3–18 mm. long. Flowers solitary in leaf-axils or in forks of the branches, sessile, often numerous. Perianth segments 5, c. 3 mm. long, triangular, acute, yellowish inside, greenish or reddish and pilose outside. Stamens c. 12–15, inserted on calyx-tube in fascicles at the base of the sinuses between calyx-lobes. Ovary 5-locular; styles 5, short; stigmas 5. Fruit 5–9 mm. in diameter, usually red or pink, pentagonal, stellate, depressed centrally, splitting into 5 valves, these inflexed and remaining attached to the centre of the ovary. Seeds ?, reniform, concentrically ridged.