Hemigraphis alternata (Burm.f.) T.Anderson

Anderson, T. (1864) Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 7: 114.

Red Ivy; Aluminium plant

Sprawling herb with ascending branches to 20 cm tall. Stems purple.

Leaf blades often purpllish in colour, ovate to oblong, margin crenate-serrate, surfaces of the leaf blade clothed in prostrate hairs, petioles often as long as the leaf blades, 6.5-9 x 3.5-6 cm, petiole 20-50 mm long.

Inflorescence a spike 20-100 mm long, corolla ca. 15 mm long, white with faint purple markings within; stamens white tinged purple.

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An introduced species native to the India, Java and Malaysia; now naturalised in parts of CYP and NEQ. Invading rain forest and complex mesophyll vine forest.

Popular garden plant widely used as borders and ground covers.