Biophytum soukupii Lourteig

7-30 pseudoverticillate at the end of the stem, linear subcuneate, to 13 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, 10-25-jugate; lower leaflets subtriangular, 3 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, the middle leaflets larger, 6-14 mm long, 2.5-4.5 mm wide, oblong rectangular, obtuse, basally truncate or oblique on the anterior side, the anterior angle round-ish, the posterior angle square, the terminal pair obovate elliptic, 5.5-6.5 mm, basally truncate, on the posterior side, the angle square, the anterior side oblique, the leaflets green above, violaceous beneath, oblique, the midrib emerging at the base 1/3 way to the posterior angle, secondary nerves 20-35 pairs, alternating thick and fine, terminating in a marginal nerve, short appressed pubescent on both sides; petiole ca. 0.25 mm long, broader than long. Inflorescences 1-4(-7), glomeruliform or fusiform, 5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, one flower opening at a time; peduncle 1-2 cm long, shorter than the leaves, pubescent; bracts situated at the insertion of the peduncles, subulate, 2.5-5 mm long, short appressed pu-bescent, purplish; outer bracteoles triangular, 1.0 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, inner bracteoles elongate, subulate, keeled, to 3.5 mm long appressed ciliate, sparingly short pilose; pedicels about equalling the bracteoles, somewhat longer, to 3.5 mm, in fruit, articulate near the base. Flowers with the sepals sublinear, 5.5-7 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, acute, 5-7-nerved, hirsute with long and glandular short hairs; petals white (?pink), oblong spatulate, 1.5 times the calyx length, basally clawed, minutely glandular outside; stamens with filaments enlarged to-ward the base, the thecas subsagittate, the longer stamens ca. 6.5 mm long, pubescent and glandular, the shorter stamens ca. 3 mm long, glabrous; pistils macro-, meso-, and microstylous and as long as the shorter stamens, the style pubescent and glandular, the stigma enlarged, 2-lobed, subcapitate, papillose, the ovary apically pubescent and glandular, the carpels 4-6-ovuled. Capsule oblong, 4.5-5 mm long, about equalling the calyx, apically pubescent and glandular or glabrate, the carpels 4-6-seeded; seeds tawny, semi-ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm long, apiculate, margined, longitudinally tuberculate.