akhuparni :

Morphology:
These are perennial herbs, prostrate, axialpart, sparsely hirtellous& glabrascent, stem rooting at nodes becoming tuberculate . petiole 0.2-3.7cm leaf blade reniform to broadly ovate 0.5 to 3.5 x0.6-3.5mm, glabrous or sparsely appressed pilose, base cordate, margin entire or coarsely crenate, apex obtuse broadly rounded or slightly emarginated. Inflorescences sub sessile.1(3) flowered, bracts unequal ovate to linear pubercent apex acute pedical 2-4mm. Sepals obovate to circular to subquadrate, margin long ciliate. Outer 2 sepals 2.5mm, apex obtuse hoodlike & distinctly mucronate. Inner 3 sepals 3-6mm deeply emarginated corolla yellow tubular companulate 5-9mm mid petaline bandsdistinctly 5 veined purplish tinged outside.Inside pubescent basally limb slightly 5 lobed. Overy glabrous . capsule enclosed by perisislent calyx, brown black with globular 5-6mm longitudddinally. Grooved glabrous,apiculate, seeds are grayish brown.
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