Trigonotis procumbens (Warb.) I.M.Johnst.

Creeping herbs, sometimes growing in clumps. Stems long, slender, much branched with suberect distal part, green or purple, antrorse strigose. Leaves ovate, elliptic or intermediate, sometimes suborbicular, petiole 1-12 mm long, densely or sparsely strigose, blade 0.3-4.5 by 0.2-3 cm, base cuneate, abruptly contracted to petiole, apex rounded or obtuse and apiculate, with 3 or 4 lateral nerves on each side of midrib, appressed antrorse strigose on both sides, often denser along midrib below. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels 3-8 mm long, appressed antrorse strigose. Calyx appressed strigose outside and inside, basal tube 0.5-1 mm long in flower, up to 2 mm in fruit, lobes ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 2-3 by 1 mm, acute, with a black gland below apex. Corolla white, pale mauve, or violet, or only tip of lobes pink, tube c. 2 mm long, finely papillate inside, lobes ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 2-3 by 1-2 mm, obtuse, glabrous; fornices indistinctly bilobed, 0.5 mm wide, 0.2 mm long, ciliolate. Stamens very short, 0.5-0.8 mm, anthers 0.5 mm, ovoid. Pistil: style c. 1 mm long. Nutlets 7-10, pyriform, c. 0.8 mm long, dorsally rounded, brownish grey or blackish brown, smooth, shiny, rarely dorsally with few hairs. Fig. 16f.

A tropical plant. It occurs at high altitudes between 1,600-3,700 m above sea level. It is endemic to New Guinea.