Hedyotis radicans (Bartl. ex DC.) Miq.

Miquel, F.A.W. (1857) Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 2(2): 181.

Decumbent herbaceous perennial. Stems terete, glabrous, rooting at the nodes.

Leaf blades 55-150 x 8-30 mm, midrib and secondary veins prominent on abaxial surface; petioles 3-7 mm long and glabrous. Stipules 2-5 mm long, margins with 3-4 long teeth.

Inflorescence a 5-8 -flowered pedunculate corymbiform cyme, 1-3 peduncles per node; peduncles 5-10 mm long and hispidulous; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Calyx tube subglobose and ca. 1 mm diam., glabrous; lobes triangular, 1-1.5 mm long and reflexed at the apex. Corolla glabrous outside; tube 1-1.5 mm long; lobes linear 1.5-2 mm long, erect with short, stiff hairs inside at base, reflexed at apex. Filaments with stiff hairs at the base. Style with stiff antrorse hairs on middle half.

Capsule globose, 1.5-2.5 mm diameter, glabrous; calyx lobes erect, recurved at apex. Seeds obconic and laterally compressed, ca. 0.5 mm long; dark brown with a reticulate-areolate testa.

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Occurs in CYP and NEQ as far south as Tully. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 400m. Grows in rainforest, vineforest, swamp forest, woodlandAlso from Malesia and New Guinea.