Botanical name: Vandellia viscosa    Family: Linderniaceae (Lindernia family)
Synonyms: Gratiola viscosa, Hornemannia viscosa, Lindernia cruciformis, Lindernia viscosa

Sticky Lindernia is an annual herb, with stems erect or sparsely spreading, with coarse spreading long hairs. Leaves are short-stalked below, stalkless above. Leaf blade is ovate-oblong, up to 5 cm, sparsely coarsely hairy, margin is wavy and toothed, with a blunt or rounded tip. Upper stalkless are wider than long, smaller than basal leaves. Flowers are borne in lax, 6-10-flowered racemes. Sepals are narrowly lance-shaped, coarsely hairy. Flowers are white or yellowish, up to 5-6 mm, with or without a yellow throat. Lower lip is about 3 mm, with 3 nearly equal lobes. Upper lip is about 2 mm, 2-lobed. Stamens are 4, all fertile. Capsule is spherical, almost as long as the persistent sepals. Sticky Lindernia is found in the Himalayas in NE India, and in Western Ghats, at altitudes of 900-1300 m. Flowering: May-November.

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