Biophytum falcifolium Lourteig

pubescent; bracts-subulate, ca. 2.5 mm long, purplish, situated at the insertion of the peduncle, sparsely short pilose; bracteoles spirally overlapping, green, basally violaceous, narrowly triangular, 1.5-3 mm long, 1-nerved, strongly keeled, short pubescent and glandular, the hairs 1-several celled; pedicels 7-15 mm long, violaceous, fine pubescent. Flowers with sepals linear-elliptic, sharp, 4.5-7 mm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, 5-7-nerved, densely glandular, the hairs 1-several celled; petals cream, pinkish veined, oblong spatulate, the base clawed, 1.5 times the calyx length; longer stamens unequal, 3-3.5 mm long, white, flat with a few glandular hairs; the anthers ovoid with cordate base, the shorter stamens 1-1.5 mm with sterile anthers, or the entire stamen becoming a glandular relic; pistil equalling or shorter than the long stamens, 2.5-3.5 mm long, the style glandular pubescent, the stigma bifid, the ovary 5-lobulate, apically pilose, the carpels 3-4-ovuled. Capsule globose, ca. 3.5 mm long, shorter than the calyx, apically glandular pubescent, the carpels 3-seeded; seeds too immature to de-scribe.