Compilation
Anthospermum hedyotideum

perennial; stems short, simple, or a little branched, as well as the leaves, minutely downy; leaves opposite, ovate, acute, or ovate-lanceolate, with revolute margins; stipules 3-fid, the lateral lobes smaller; flowers solitary, tetrandrous; fruit elliptic; mericarps convex at the back, minutely papillate; limb of calyx nearly obsolete. Stems many from the root, 3–4 inches high. Petiole nearly 1 line long. Leaves at length subglabrous, acute at both ends, pale and with some lateral veins beneath. 4–6 lines long, 2 lines broad. Stipules small. Calyx minute, 4-toothed. Lobes of the corolla shorter than the tube. Fruit 1 line long, the mericarps usually with a line on the back