Sauropus bishnupadae M.Gangop. & Chakrab. apud Chakrab. & M.Gangop. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 20: 524, 544, f. 2 A - D. 1996.

Shrubs, up to 1.5 m high; branchlets appressed pilose. Leaves ovate to elliptic or ovate- oblong, unequal at base, acute and mucronate at apex, 2.5 - 5 x 1.5 - 2.5 cm, thinly chartaceous, sparsely appressed pilose above, scattered pilose (particularly on nerves) beneath, penninerved; lateral nerves 7 - 8 pairs; petioles 1.5 - 2 mm long, appressed pilose. Male flowers: pedicels 8 - 10 mm long; calyx flat, star-shaped, 2 - 3 mm in diam., sparsely puberulous outside; segments 6, suborbicular to squarish, 0.6 - 1 x 0.6 - 1 mm, truncate to rounded at apex, membranous; anthers ca 0.3 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 2.5 - 3 mm long; calyx cupular, ca 3 mm in diam.; segments 6, free, ovate, acute, 1.5 - 2 x 0.8 - 1.2 mm, appressed puberulous to glabrescent outside; ovary depressed, ca 1 mm in diam.; styles ca 1 mm long, bifid, horizontal. Fruits not seen.

Fl. April - May.

Distrib. India: Tropical forests, at low altitudes. West Bengal and Sikkim.

Bangladesh.