Plants slender, creeping. Stem glabrous, rooting at the nodes. Leaves petio¬late, almost round, 7-9 veined, 5-20 mm in diameter; ventral surface pubescent; margin crenate; petioles glabrous; stipules scarious, mottled. Flowers 3-10 in an umbel, subsessile. Fruit orbicular, 1 mm broad.

Type locality: Mauritius.

Distribution: Tropical Asia, W. Pakistan, India to China and Japan. Introduced in Australia and America.

Found in the plains and the foothills in grassy places near water.