Dicliptera laxata C.B.Clarke

A straggling herb or small shrub. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1-5 m tall. The leaves are opposite and narrowly oval. They taper towards both ends. They are dark green. The flowers are in stalked clusters. There are a rind of green floral bracts around them. Each flower has 2 bracts. The flowers are tube shaped and white or pink. There are purple streaks. The fruit is an oval capsule about 1 cm long. It has 4 round black seeds.

High forest, often in deep shade, sometimes dominant in the under-storey, riparian forest, occasionally in swamp forest, on steep slopes of well-watered ground, at elevations from 1,500-2,300 metres.

The leaves are used as a vegetable. The tender leaves are cooked and coconut milk or ground peanuts are added.

Can be grown by seedlings.