Patellifolia are annual or perennial herbs, growing erect or often procumbent.
The alternate leaves have a petiole, their leaf blade is heart-shaped or hastate.

The spike-like inflorescences consist of glomerules of one to three flowers sitting in the axils of leaf-like bracts.
The free flowers are hermaphrodite.
The perianth consists of five herbaceous, slightly keeled tepal lobes which are connate at base.
There are five stamens opposite to the tepals, their filaments are fused at base forming a disc.
The ovary is semi-inferior with 2 stigmas.

In fruit, the ovary is partly immersed in the enlarged base of the perianth.
The tepal lobes are not modified and appressed to the fruit.
The solitary fruits are nearly globular capsules, they fall down when ripe and open with a circumscissile lid.
The vertical seed contains an annular embryo and copious perisperm (feeding tissue).
Patellifolia are annual or perennial herbs, growing erect or often procumbent. The alternate leaves have a petiole, their leaf blade is heart-shaped or hastate.
The spike-like inflorescences consist of glomerules of one to three flowers sitting in the axils of leaf-like bracts. The free flowers are hermaphrodite. The perianth consists of five herbaceous, slightly keeled tepal lobes which are connate at base. There are five stamens opposite to the tepals, their filaments are fused at base forming a disc. The ovary is semi-inferior with 2 stigmas.
In fruit, the ovary is partly immersed in the enlarged base of the perianth. The tepal lobes are not modified and appressed to the fruit. The solitary fruits are nearly globular capsules, they fall down when ripe and open with a circumscissile lid. The vertical seed contains an annular embryo and copious perisperm (feeding tissue).
Patellifolia