Stems reddish purple to green, usually several from a common repent base, ascending or decumbent and rooting at the nodes, 8-30(-40) cm long, 4-6 mm in diameter toward base, usually dichotomously or trichotomously branched, internodes of variable lengths, 1-4(-8) cm long, puberulent, the hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long, older stems glabrate.
Leaves
Leaves (2)3-4 per node, yellowish green to dark green, lower surface slightly paler, thick and turgid when fresh, wrinkled and coriaceous when dry, broadly rhombic-elliptic to suborbicular, occasionally broadly ovate or broadly obovate, 0.7-2 cm long, 0.5-1.7 cm wide, palmately 3-nerved, the veins obscure, paler than intercostal areas, not impressed, sparsely puberulent or upper surface sometimes glabrate, margins flat, apex broadly obtuse to rounded or obtuse, base rounded to cuneate, petioles erect, ca. 0.2 cm long.
Flowers
Spikes solitary, terminal, 3-6.5 cm long, the rachis 3.5-6 mm in diameter, puberulent, flowers densely congested, peduncles 1-6 cm long, puberulent; ovary cylindrical-ovoid, deeply embedded in pits of rachis, apex slightly oblique; stigmas terminal or slightly subterminal.
Fruit
Fruit yellowish in lower 1/2, cylindrical, ca. 1.2-1.3 mm long, smooth, apex slightly beaked.
