Annual to 25(-35) cm; stems with bent to curved base, ascending-procumbent, yellowish to green-striped, sometimes partly with red, usually basally branched, lowermost branches subopposite, ascending, upper branches few. Leaf blade 1.5-2.5(-3.0) cm, ovate to broadly ovate to trullate or elliptic, somewhat longer than broad, slightly 3-lobed, ± farinose especially below, lobes rounded, margin entire, rarely with a few minute teeth, base short attenuate, apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescence paniculate, mostly leafy and on short branches; glomerules small, loose to dense. Perianth lobes 5, green, farinose, connate to the middle, keeled on back. Stamens 5 or 0. Stigmas 2. Pericarp fairly loose to ± adherent. Seeds horizontal, black, 1.1-1.3 mm in diameter, round in outline, margin fairly obtuse; testa with radial furrows and elongated shallow pits especially near the margin.