Hedyotis hirsutissima

Shrubs or undershrubs, 50-150 cm long; branches leafy above and with scars of stipules and fallen leaves below; stem obtusely angular or terete, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile or shortly petioled, 1-5 x 0.8-2.5 cm, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, mucronate at apex, attenuate at base, coriaceous, densely yellowish hirsute on both surfaces; nerves 3-4 pairs, strong, raised below, hirsute; petiole stout, 1-2 mm long, hirsute; stipules sheathing at base, 1-2 x 2-4, deeply pectinate, hirsute. Inflorescence axillary, peduncled, panicle of few flowered corymbose cymes; branches slender, shorter than leaves, dense hirsute. Flowers 18-20 mm long, hirsute outside, bracteate; pedicel 1-2 mm long; bracts foliaceous, 1-4 x 0.8-2 mm, linear-lanceolate. Hypanthium 1.5-3 mm long; calyx limb 1-2 mm long; lobes 4, 2.5-3.5 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate; midnerve prominent. Corolla campanulate; tube 12-13 mm long, dense pubescent inside, lobes 4, ovate, acute, 5.5-6.5 mm, minute pubescent inside. Stamens 4, exserted; filaments 2-3.5 mm long, adnate at the throat; anthers 1-2 mm long, oblong-linear. Ovary 1-1.5 mm long; ovules many; style 8-9 mm long, slender; stigma bilobed, 0.5-1 mm long, fleshy, pilose. Capsule 2-3 x 2-2.5 mm, globose, top enclosed within calyx lobes, hirsute; seeds 0.7-1 x 0.5-0.7 mm, angular, narrowly winged; exotesta reticulate, brownish.