Ardisiandra wettsteinii R.Wagner

Stems slender, reddish, prostrate, up to 45 cm. long, rooting at the nodes; internodes 5–30 mm. long.. Leaves numerous; petiole slender, pubescent, up to 4 cm. long; lamina orbicular, up to 40 × 40 mm., sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, obtuse, basally cordate, 7–9-crenate, the crenations with a few short broad acute teeth.. Racemes 1–6-flowered; axes up to 10 mm.; peduncles up to 10 mm.; pedicels filiform, up to 20 mm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 3–4 mm. long.. Calyx-segments narrowly ovate, pubescent, basally rounded, acute, ciliate, slightly accrescent, at anthesis about half as long as the corolla.. Corolla white or pale mauve, up to 8 mm. long; lobes 2–3 mm. long, glabrous; apex rounded or emarginate.. Filaments about 0.6 mm. long; anthers about 1.3 mm. long.. Capsule globose, about 4–5 mm. in diameter, indehiscent, with a thin transparent pericarp through which can be seen the swollen whitish placenta and black seeds.. Seeds about 1.2 mm. long.. Fig. 1/1–11, p. 3.