A small annual branched from base, sometimes erect up to 8-25 cm long. Leaves 6-12 x 5-7 mm, ovate-broadly ovate-spathulate, acute or obtuse, cuneate at base, entire-3 lobed, 4-15 mm, long-petiolate. Staminate flowers in leaf axils, perianth up to 0.8 mm long, brownish, stamens 1-4, long-exserted. Pistillate flowers: perianth very small.

Fl. Per.: June.

Syntypes: Western Tibet: Topedunga, north of Kumaon, Strachey & Winterbottom; Sikkim; at Tungu, alt. 12. - 14000 ft., J.D.Hooker.

Distribution: As the genus.