Chironia decumbens Levyns

Sparsely branched, rather weak herbs with some stems decumbent, rooting at the nodes; branches subquadrate; specimens dry a light yellowish green. Leaves suberect, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, 1.3-4.3 cm long and 2-7.5 mm broad, longer or shorter than the internodes, apex subobtuse or in some cases acuminate to an acute point, base broad or in elliptic leaves cuneate. Inflorescence terminal on the branches, flowers single or in lax monochasial cymes; pedicels 1.5-6 cm long. Calyx about 1.4 cm long, about as long as the corolla tube; tube about 2 mm long, lobes 1.2 cm long, narrowly triangular or lanceolate, long attenuate to an acute apex, obscurely keeled. Corolla magenta-pink, 2.2-3 cm long; tube about 1.3 cm long, tubular, narrowing slightly into a long neck and slightly widened at the mouth; lobes more or less elliptic, 1.5 cm long and 7 mm broad, gradually narrowing towards, and abruptly acuminate near, the acute apex; margin sometimes obscurely toothed or crenate on one side. Stamens inserted about 2 mm below the rim; filaments about 4 mm long, linear-subulate, slightly and gradually widened towards the base and decurrent on the tube at least as a nerve; anthers about 4 mm long, straight or very slightly twisted at the apex, rarely distinctly twisted (hybrid origin?). Ovary about 1.1 cm long, narrowed gradually into the 1.2 cm long style; stigma broadly peltate, stigmatic round the margins, sometimes 2-cleft. Capsule about 1.6 cm long, acute with the style persistent, splitting into two sometimes with the apex still intact. Seeds subglobcse, small, honey-combed.