Botanical name: Geophila herbacea    Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Geophila repens subsp. reniformis, Psychotria herbacea

Snake Pennywort is a prostrate creeping herb. Leaves are round-heart-shaped to narrowly kidney-shaped, tip rounded, basal lobes rounded, upper surface hairless, underside velvet-hairy, especially towards base. Flowers are trumpet-shaped, up to 1.5 cm long, and found 1-3 together at the ends of slender stalks. Flowers are white with 5 petals. Fruit is spherical, red, soft fleshy, pyrenes hemi-ovoid, somewhat pointed, tending to be more or less rugose on convex side, and rarely somewhat so on flat side, pyrene not at all warped or twisted. Snake Pennywort is found in Tropical & Subtropical Africa, Asia to Pacific.

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