Annual, fleshy herb up to 30 cm tall. Leaves fleshy, generally long-petiolated, the petiole up to 9 cm long; lamina up to 6 x 4.5 cm, ovate-triangular, truncate to subcordate at the base, entire, obtuse or acute. Flowers racemosely arranged in 1-4-flowered worls, small, bisexual. Inner perianth enlarged in fruit, membranous wings with reticulation of coloured veins varying in colour from yellowish green to almost maroon.