Description
Leaves triangular-hastate with basal lobes prominent laterally, even deltoid.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Timor present, except extreme west present
Malesia: Sumatra, Timor, Philippines, Celebes, New Guinea (except extreme west).
Notes
This subspecies, which is centred in New Guinea, intergrades with subsp. betonicifolia in N. Queensland, and it is possible that many of the triangular-leaved forms north from New Guinea represent intermediates between the two subspecies.
