A polymorphous, annual to perennial, branched, creeping or hanging herb, 8—60 cm long, stems terete, rooting at the nodes, glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate, rounded to ovate or reniform, 2—25 mm x 2—35 mm, base cordate, truncate or decurrent, apex acute or rounded, margins dentate to subentire, petiole 0—25 mm long. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicel 0.5—6 cm long; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate to triangular, 1—11 mm long, corolla 4.5—15 mm long, white to pink or purple, outside and inside glabrous or hairy, dorsal lobes 2—14 mm long, connate with lateral ones for 1.5—5 mm, lateral lobes connate to central lobe for 2—12 mm, equal in length, filaments 3—11 mm long, very variable, free for about 3/4 of their length, glabrous or hairy. Fruit very variable, an indehiscent or dehiscent capsule or a rather dry to baccate berry, ellipsoid to globose, 6—16 mm x 5—13 mm, reddish-violet, glabrous to hairy, pedicel curved downwards. Seed flattened-ellipsoid, about 1 mm long, brown, finely reticulate.

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Used for treating sprue (pounded leaves); to treat stomach-ache, scabies, infected eyes, swellings and boils (fruits or leaves).