Kohautia aspera - Long-Flower Trembletop

Long-Flower Trembletop is a small, annual or perennial herb, profusely branching, leafy below; stem about 3 ft long, round, pinkish, rough throughout. Leaves are stalkless, opposite or in whorls, 3-6 x 0.3-0.9 cm, linear, pointed at tip, narrowed at hase, pale green, rough mostly at the base and nerves below, 1-nerved, stipules 2-2.5 x 1-2 mm, membranous, flat, with 4-5 bistles, 2.5-3 mm long. Flowers are borne at branch ends, in monochosial cymes, branches loose, diverging, rough. Flowers are 8-10 mm long; flower-stalk 0.5-0.8 mm long, rough; bracts 0.7-1 x 0.9-1 mm, with 3-4 bristles, pectinate. Hypanthium is spherical, 0.7-0.9 mm long; sepal-limb very short; sepals 4, 0.8-1 x 0.2-0.3 mm, tiangular, pointed. Flowers are 5-7 mm long, about 2 mm across, violet, bluish white or creamy; tube 4-5.5 mm long, cylindrical, broadening above, notched below. Petals are 1-1.5 x 0.6-0.8 mm, ovate, blunt above, hairless. Stamens are 4, inserted at upper broader part of flower tube. Capsule is 3-4 x 3-4 mm, spherical, round or compressed, 2 horned. Long-Flower Trembletop is found in Paleotropics. Flowering: January-October.