Herb forming patches up to 20 cm. or more diam.; branchlets greenish or reddish, glab. or very faintly bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp., crowded, sessile or nearly so; lamina broad-elliptic to suborbicular or sts ovate, green to reddish, us. rugulose, at least below, ± 3-5 mm. diam., coriac. to slightly fleshy, glab.; margins entire or minutely denticulate. Fls 2-3 mm. diam., calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, but little < white or pale rose petals. Capsules glab. or very faintly pubescent, (5)-10-25 mm. long; peduncles glab. (10)-25-50-(65) mm. long, very slender. Seeds densely papillose.

Stems slender, pale green; lamina oblong to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, remotely and rather obscurely denticulate, up to ± 7 mm. diam. Cockayne says: "pedunculis brevibus 5-11 mm. longis; capsulis circ 2·8 cm. longis; viridibus secundum suturam brunneo tinctis."

2n = 36

n = 18

n = 18

2n = 36

Loosely matted, creeping, stem-rooting herb forming patches up to 0.4 m across, glabrous or rarely the stems with a very few strigillose hairs in lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf broadly elliptic to ovate, (3)-4-11 × (2)-3-8 mm. Floral tube 0.5-1.1 mm deep, sparsely strigillose outside. Petals usually white, rarely pale pink, 2.5-5.3 × 1.5-4 mm. Capsule glabrous, (1.5)-2-4.2 cm long; fruiting pedicel (2.7)-3.5-9-(15) cm long.