Annual herb, 5-15 cm including elongated inflorescence. Stem hairy pubescent, generally up to 5 cm long, naked to the first whorl of leaves. Leaves in a whorl of 3-4, 2-6 x 1-4 cm, unequal elliptic or ovate, entire, rounded, obtuse-acute, midrib and lateral nerves distinct; upper surface ± glabrous, lower sparsely hairy with short, white appressed hairs. Inflorescence an elongated corymbose dichotomous cyme; peduncle 3-6 cm long, sparsely hairy. Flowers white, c. 3 mm long, pedicel 2-3 mm long, much elongated in fruit. Calyx cylindrical, teeth minute, lanceolate, not distinct in fruit. Corolla-tube c. 0.8 mm long, lobes c. 1.2 mm long, obtuse. Capsule obconical, c. 2 mm long and c. 3 mm wide.

Fl. Per.: September-October.

Type: ‘Ab honoratiss. Heyne innominatum hauc plantain accepi ex India orientali’.

Distribution: Indo-Malaya, lava, Assam and Pakistan.

This Indo-Malayan element is rather rare in our area.