Spermacoce pusilla - Tiny False Buttonweed

❏ Binomial Name : Spermacoce pusilla Wall.

❏ Synonym : Bigelovia pusilla,Borreria roxburghiana,Borreria rosea

❏ Family : Rubiaceae

❏ Common Name : Tiny False Buttonweed

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Spermacoce pusilla Botanical Description

Herbs, to 30 cm high, stems glabrous. Leaves to 5 x 0.7 cm, lanceolate, acuminate, thinly scabrid, sessile; stipule cupular, 6-7-teethed, teeth 7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers many, in dense axillary clusters; calyx lobes 4, acuminate, glabrous; corolla 2 mm long, white, lobes spreading. Capsule 2 x 1.5 mm, ovoid, scabrid above. Fl. &Fr.: October-November.

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