Prostrate annual herb with several primary stems extending radially from a slender taproot; stems to 15 cm long, terete, strigulose with white recurved hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long, internodes 0.6-2.2 cm long; leaves opposite, stipules interpetiolar, separate, filiform, 0.6-0.9 mm long, pilose, petioles 0.5-0.9 mm long, strigulose, blade ovate to elliptic, often slightly falcate, 0.5-1.1 cm long, 0.2-0.5cm wide, base asymmetrical, cordate to oblique, apex acute, upper surface glabrescent with scattered hairs, often with a red spot towards the center, lower surface strigulose, margin sharply serrulate to sometimes subentire; cyathia solitary, peduncles 0.5-1.6 mm long, strigulose, involucre obconical 0.9-1.2mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, outer surface strigulose, lobes subulate, 0.2-0.4 mm long, pilose, glands 4, circular to transversely oblong, 0.2 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm wide, green, yellow or light pink, convex, appendages absent or reduced to a narrow margin on the outer portion of the gland, gynophore glabrous, exserted from the involucre 1.4-1.8 mm; staminate flowers 5-8; ovary 3-lobed, strigulose-canescent, styles undivided, 0.3-0.4 mm long, pink to red, glabrous; capsules oblate, 3-lobed, 1.7-2.0 mm long, 2.2-2.7 mm wide, strigulose; seeds broadly ovoid, essentially triangular in cross-section, 1.2-1.4 mm long, about 1 mm wide, tan to grayish when immature, becoming brown-blackish, apex a low, blunt point, base truncate, with 2 well-defined transverse ridges not passing through the dorsal keel.