Annual prostrate herbs, stem acutely angular to winged, pilose. Leaves × opposite, 6-12 6-7 mm, orbicular, broadly ovate or elliptic, acute, mucronate at apex, narrowed at base, punctate, 3-nerved below, setolose at margin, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 0.5-1.5 mm long, broad, winged, pilose; stipules connate, with 2-3 bristles. Flowers 2-3 mm long in axillary clusters of 2-6 flowers or solitary. Hypanthium 1-1.2 mm long, globose; calyx × limb very short; lobes 4, 1-1.2 0.3-0.4 mm, triangular to ovate-lanceolate, pilose on outer surface. Corolla tube very short; × lobes 1.5-1.8 0.6-0.10 mm. Stamens 4, included within corolla, 0.5-1 mm long; anthers small, adherent around stigma. Ovary 0.8-1 mm long; ovules many on globose placenta towards the base. Capsule × globose, 1.5-1.8 1.5-1.8 mm didymous, laterally compressed, top truncate; seeds × many, triangular, 0.15-0.2 0.1-0.13 mm, exotesta reticulate, purple.
native range
Not clearly known
distribution
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India and North Vietnam