Description
        Hedyotis herbacea L. Herb, up to 50 high; stem 4-angled, glabrous. Leaves opposite, decussate, linear-lanceolate, 1.2 - 2.7 x 0.2 - 04 cm, cuneate at base, entire at margin, acute-apiculate at apex, glabrous; 1-nerved; petiole sessile. Stipule fused, triangular. Flowers ca. 2 mm across, white, solitary, axillary or extra axillary; peduncle 1 - 3 per node, up to 3 cm long. Calyx -lobe 5, triangular-linear, ca. 1.5 mm long. Corolla salverform, tube longer than calyx lobe, 4-lobe, spatulate-oblong to elliptic, ca. 1 mm long. Stamens 4; filament slender, ca. 1.2 mm long; anther oblong, exserted, 0.4 mm long. Ovary subglobose, ca. 0.8 mm long; 2-loculed; ovules many; style shortly filiform, 1.5 mm long; stigma exserted, 2-lobed. Capsules subglobose-ovoid, ca. 03 mm across, localicidally dehiscent; seeds many, ovoid, pitted, dark brown.