Small-flowered lindernia is a slender, much branched,
prostrate herb, 10-20 cm high, with stems hairless. Leaves are up to 1.5 x 0.7
cm, ovate, pointed, entire, stalkless; nerves 3 pairs. Flowers are borne in
branch-end racemes or in upper in leaf-axils. Bracts are 5 x 3 mm, ovate;
flower-stalk deflexed in fruit, 1.5 cm long; sepals 3 mm long, fused at
base. Flower are 6 mm long; upper lip bifurcated at tip; lower lip bluntly
3-lobed; staminodes with lateral vermiform appendages. Capsules are 5 x 2.5
mm, ovoid, hairless; seeds 0.3 mm long, obovoid, yellow, hairless.
Small-flowered Lindernia is widespread in Tropical Africa, India and SE Asia.
Flowering: August-December.