"A decumbent-ascending or prostrate perennial herb with glabrous branches, 30-90 cm tall. Leaves simple, variable in size and shape on a single plant, 0.7-4 cm long and 0.7-1.5 cm wide, broadly to narrowly oblong or obovate, base subcordate or truncate, apex acute or emarginate, usually hairy; petioles 0.3-1.4 cm long; stipules to 1.2 cm long. Flowers small, red or pinkish-yellow, borne in pairs subtended by a stipule -like bract, in lax, downy, axillary or terminal racemes to 5 cm long. Fruits (pods) nearly round or cylindrical, upto 2.5 cm long, 6-9 jointed; seeds smooth, brownish-yellow, 2 mm in diam."