A herbaceous annual herb, stems twining or sometimes prostrate, and then sometimes rooting at the nodes, more or less densely retrorsely pilose. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular in outline, entire or 3-lobed, 5—17 cm x 3.5—16 cm, base cordate, apex shortly or long-acuminate, petiole 2—18 cm long. Inflorescence, an umbellate cyme few-flowered, dense, peduncle (0.5—)4—20 cm long, bracts linear to filiform; pedicel 2—5(—8) mm long, sepals equal, 14—22 mm long, hairy or glabrous, corolla funnel-shaped, 5—8 cm long, bright blue or bluish-purple, afterwards more reddish-purple or red, the tube much paler to whitish, filaments hairy at base, ovary glabrous. Fruit a capsule, subglobose, 5/8 inch in diameter. Seeds 2, dark brown, pubescent.

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation
Crop Profile for Pineapples in Northern Mariana Islands

The sap from the crushed leaves is drunk to relieve dysentery and placed on sores, which are then wrapped with the leaf.