The floating leaves are attached to the stem by glabrous, non-brittle, 2.3-8 mm wide,green to reddish petioles, which have two primary central air canals, as well as six smaller secondary ones.

[3] The leaf blade is ovate, suborbicular to orbicular in shape and has flat and entire margins.

[2] They have non-brittle, glabrous, brownish peduncles with six central primary air canals and twelve smaller secondary, peripheral ones.

[2] Proliferating pseudanthia are present,[2] which enable rapid vegetative reproduction under volatile environmental conditions.

Lima on the 13th of December 2009 in the municipality Itaberaba on the road to Ipirá in the state of Bahia, Brazil.