Botanical name: Hoppea dichotoma    Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Synonyms: Hoppea dichotoma f. pedicellata S.R.Paul, Canscora pusilla, Cicendia roxburghii

Indian Hoppea is a dichotomously branched, annual, 2-10 cm high, delicate herb. Stem is branched from base or above, lineolate. Leaves are 2-8 x 1.5-6 mm, inverted-lanceshaped-lanceshaped or elliptic, pointed, entire. Flowers are solitary, at branch-ends on 2-4 mm long flower-stalk, 4-merous. Calyx is 1.5-3 mm long, tube smaller than sepals; sepals 1-25 x 1.0-15 mm, lanceshaped-inverted-lanceshaped, pointed-tapering, entire. Flowers are tubular, smaller than calyx, 1-1.5 mm long; petals 0.75-1.5 x 0.5-1.0 mm, ovate, entire, pointed. Stamens are 4, 3 sterile, 1 fertile; fertile larger than sterile. Ovary spherical, 1.75-2.25 x 15-2.0 mm, capsule many seeded, seeds netveined. Indian Hoppea is native to India.

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