Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Fleshy herbs.

Stems: Stems delicate, slightly zigzag, apparently decumbent to weakly ascending from a rooting base, forming low clumps, up to 5 cm long, ca. 1 mm in diameter toward base in dry specimens, usually unbranched in upper part, internodes ca. 1–1.5 cm long, hirsute, the hairs up to 0.5 mm long.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades elliptic to oblong–elliptic or sometimes some of them spatulate, 1.5–2(–3.5),cm long, 0.8–1.5(–1.7) cm wide. Apex rounded to obtuse. Base rounded to cuneate. Surfaces moderately to very sparsely hirsute; simple dark green on upper surface; lower surfaces pale green, thin and membranous when dry. Margins flat, entire. Inconspicuously palmately 3-veined, the veins apparently not impressed on upper surface. Petioles very slender, 0.8–1.2 cm long, hirsute. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in spikes 1 to few, terminal and axillary, 2.5–3 cm long, the rachis ca. 1 mm in diameter, glabrous, flowers well-spaced, peduncles ca. 0.5–1 cm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect), perianth absent. Each flower subtended by a peltate bract. Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 2. Ovary superior, ovoid, 1-carpellate, 1-celled, apex oblique; ovules 1 per cell, orthotropous, erect; stigmas subterminal.

Fruit: Fruit ovoid; ca.0.7 mm long; slightly beaked; papillose–viscid with sessile glands. Seeds 1 per fruit; with scanty endosperm and copious; starchy perisperm.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Shaded cliffs.

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