An annual, prostrate to ascending, subsucculent herb Leaves oblong, spatulate to linear, 1-5 cm x 0.3-1 cm, glabrous, with short petiole. Inflorescence a spike-like cyme, 3-10 cm long, dense, usually forked once, ebracteate; calyx glabrous, corolla 1-2.5(-3) cm long with 5 rounded lobes, white or bluish with a yellow centre, stigma an umbrella-shaped disk on a short style. Fruit breaking up into 4 nutlets about 2 mm long, glabrous.

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

The dried roots are ground to powder and applied to sores and wounds. The plant is taken as a remedy for leucorrhoea.