Lindernia minima - Yellow Lindernia

Yellow Lindernia is a small, erect herb, 5-9 cm tall; stems four-edged, greenish, glandular bristly. Leaves are stalkless, lanceshaped, linear-oblong, 2.5-7 x 1.5-2 mm, basal and uppermost leaves smaller, penninerved, wedge-shaped at base, pointed at tip, margin distantly sawtoothed, hairless. Flowers are solitary or two per node, in leaf-axils, yellow, hairless, 0.8-1 cm wide; tube cylindric, about 1 cm long; petals 5, broadly spreading, 2-lipped, upper lip notched, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes blunt at tip, mid lobe broader than lateral lobes. Stamens are 2, fertile, 2-2.2 mm long, inserted in upper lip. Pistils are about 6 mm long; style capillary; stigma 2-parted, spoon-shaped. Flower-stalks are slender, 2.5-2.9 cm long. Sepals are 5, nearly equal, linear, 2.5-2.7 mm long, pointed at tip, glandular bristly. Capsules are ovoid-oblong, about 3 mm long. Yellow Lindernia is endemic to Tamil Nadu. Flowering: December-January.