Faroa pusilla Baker

Annual herb, 2–10 cm high.. Stem simple or branched.. Basal leaves 8–10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, petiolate; petiole ± 3 mm long.. Bracts subtending inflorescence branches lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 12–25 mm long, 4–11 mm wide, narrowed at the base to a pseudopetiole ± 0.5 mm long, acute.. Inflorescences of axillary and terminal fascicles, usually many-flowered; pedicels 1–2.5 mm long, distinct; bracts subtending inflorescence oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 4–8 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, distinctly narrowed to a pseudopetiole, obtuse.. Flowers blue-violet to whitish.. Calyx almost divided to the base with tube 0.8–1 mm long; segments ovate, 1–2 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide, obtuse to subacute, distinctly 1-nerved.. Corolla tube cylindrical to urceolate, 1.7–2 mm long, papillose; lobes obovate, ovate or lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm long, 0.6–0.7 mm wide, subacute, spreading.. Filaments 0.5–0.6 mm long, filiform; anthers ellipsoid, ± 0.5 mm long.. Ovary obovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm diameter; style 1–1.4 mm long; stigma of two filiform recurved lobes.. Capsule obovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, 0.8–1 mm diameter.. Seeds ± 0.3 mm in diameter, surface pitted.

Of damp places