Evolvulus alsinoides var. alsinoides – Chumadukodi, Krishnakranti, Sivakranthi, Thalavalathi, Vishnukranthi-plant

Description

Small prostrate much brnached villous herbs; branches radiating from rootstock. Leaves more or less distinctly in 2 rows, 6-12 x 4-7 mm, broadly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, base rounded or acute, apex subacute, adpressed pilose on both sides; petiole to 2 mm long. Flowers solitary or paired, at axils; pedicels to 5 mm long, silky hairy; bracts linear, c. 1 mm long. Calyx lobes 2-3 mm long, lanceolate, silky hairy. Corolla c. 1 cm across, rotate, subentire, blue. Ovules 2 in each cell; styles 2, each longitudinally 2-fid. Capsule 1.5-2 mm across, globose, 2-valved