Neanotis hirsuta - Hairy Starviolet

Hairy Starviolet is a perennial herb, with lower stems prostrate and upper stems apparently rising up. Flowers are borne at branch-ends or in leaf-axils, in lax cymes, branched to 2 or 3 orders often asymmetrically, with flowers borne separately or in glomerules of 2-5, hairless or hairy, carried on flower-cluster-stalk 0.8-3 cm. Bracts are laciniate or stipuliform, 0.5-2 mm. Flowers are stalkless or nearly so, white, funnel-shaped, outside hairless; tube 3.5-4 mm, finely velvet-hairy, petals ovate to triangular, 2.2-3 mm. Sepal-cup is hairless to densely hairy, limb divided essentially to base; sepals linear-lanceshaped, 1-2 mm. Stems are round to 4-angled, hairless to hirtellous in lines or throughout, angles sometimes thickened. Leaf-stalks are 1-5 mm, leaves drying papery, ovate, lanceshaped, or elliptic, 1-5.5 x 0.5-2 cm, above hairless or sparsely to moderately bristly, rough or hairy, below densely hairy or hairless, base rounded to wedge-shaped, tip pointed; secondary veins 3-5 pairs; stipules rounded to triangular, 1-2 mm. Capsules are compressed spherical, 2-2.5 x 2.5-3 mm, hairless to hairy. Hairy Starviolet is found in wet sites at streamsides or in forests, in Tropical & Subtropical Asia, including the Himalayas and NE India, at altitudes of 500-2400 m. Flowering: June-October.