Glabrous, perennial herb; stems prostrate, creeping, sprawling or decumbent, rooting at nodes. Lvs shortly petiolate, sometimes with petioles to 2 cm long, mostly on distal ascending part of stems, not decussate or imbricate except in small rosettes at stem apices, to 45-(55) × 40-(43) mm, broadly ovate, broadly oblong-elliptic, to suborbicular or almost square, flat, entire, green or glaucescent, often suffused with red, especially towards margins, dotted with numerous whitish or reddish hydathodes; base rounded, truncate or subcordate; apex rounded or ± emarginate. Infl. a loose thyrse, to c. 10 cm long but very variable in size; main axis with very small bracts. Fls 5-merous, 8-12 mm diam., usually 12-numerous, on pedicels slightly < to = fls. Calyx 1.5-2 mm long; lobes triangular. Corolla star-like; petals free and patent, (4)-5-6 × 1-2 mm, narrowly triangular or triangular-lanceolate, rose to crimson in bud, pale pink inside at anthesis; apex acute. Stamens 3-4 mm long, < carpels. Scales 0.2-0.3 mm long, ± rectangular (wider than long). Frs and seeds not seen, but fls often replaced by small plantlets in infl. branch axils.