Ornamental - It is used as an ornamental plant in gardens. Its dense and bushy habit makes it an ideal ground cover plant. Medicine - It is used in the treatment of dysentery, acute hepatitis, pain in the liver region, appendicitis, boils and abscesses.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Temperate biome
Annual herb 40cm tall.
Leaves are simple, not lobed or divided, opposite, stalkless, ovate, less than 2 cm long/wide, hairless on both sides, dots present, margin entire, tip blunt, base heart-shaped, parallel-veined.
Flowers are bisexual, grouped in a terminal one to few-flowered cyme, stalked. Flowers 4-8 mm across, stellate. Buds are cylindric-ellipsoid, tip obtuse. Sepals are free, erect, narrowly oblong or rarely lanceolate to elliptic, subequal to unequal, 2-5.5 × 0.5-2 mm; laminar glands lines, distally dots; marginal glands absent; apex acute or obtuse to rounded; veins 3-5.
The fruit is a dry capsule that splits open when mature, releasing seeds.Up to 7 mm (0.3 inches) long.
Flowering: November- Februrary.