Rotula aquatica
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Description
Shrub with many elongate, terete shoots.
Leaves crowded on numerous lateral short- shoots, subcoriaceous; petiole 0.5-3 mm long; blade 0.6-2.5 by 0.2-0.9 cm, oblanceolate to oblong, strigose or woolly strigillose, rarely glabrous, with indistinct nerves.
Inflorescence a short, terminal, few-flowered cyme; pedicels in axils of bracts.
Stamens: filaments attached above middle of corolla-tube.
Fruit red, drupaceous, subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Laos (Laos present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Burma present, Tropical Africa present, southern China present
Tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka, southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Burma; Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, New Guinea.