Biophytum polyphyllum Munro in Wight, Ill. 1: 162. 1840; Edgew. & Hook. f. in Fl. Brit. India 1: 439. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 133. 1915.

Herbs, silky and villous; stems stout, umbellately branched, slender, flexuous. Leaves 5 - 8 cm long; rachis villous with long hairs; leaflets crowded, 30 - 50 pairs, ca 3 mm long, terminal pair smallest. Flowers small. Sepals 5, lanceolate. Petals 5. Stamens 10; filaments free. Styles 5. Capsules ovoid.

Fl. & Fr. Jan. - June.

Distrib. India: In sholas of Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.

Sri Lanka.

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