Elacholoma prostrata

Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at nodes, with white eglandular hairs, largely confined to younger stems, calyces and leaf-margins. Leaves sessile, joined by a ridge at nodes, c. obovate to elliptic, 2–6 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, apex more or less acute, base mostly narrow-cuneate, margins entire. Flowers solitary in axils; pedicel 5–25 mm long. Calyx 3–7 mm long, teeth almost equal, c. 1 mm long; corolla more or less rotate, tube 6–15 mm long and gradually dilated above calyx, tube yellow, throat white, lobes spreading, almost equal, 4–5 mm long, blue or pink, rarely white. Capsule obovoid, 4–5 mm long. Flowers Jul.–Sep.