About Euploca polyphylla (Lehm.) J.I.M.Melo & Semir
Euploca polyphylla is a herb or subshrub. Its stems are prostrate or decumbent and sericeous. The leaves are alternate or sub - opposite. The petiole is 0.03 - 0.1 cm long and sericeous. The leaf lamina is narrow lanceolate or oblanceolate, measuring 0.6 - 1.3 x 0.1 - 0.2 cm, with an acute apex, cuneate base, entire margin, and sericeous surfaces on both sides. The inflorescences are single or paired, cymose, 1 - 15 cm long. The bracts are ovate, 0.3 - 0.4 cm long, sericeous inside and glabrous outside. The flowers are sub - sessile. The calyx is slightly shorter than the corolla tube, with lobes 3 - 4 mm long at anthesis, glabrous inside and sericeous outside. The corolla is yellow or white, tubular, sericeous outside and at the throat inside. The tube is widened in the middle, and the lobes are ovate - deltoid with narrow sinuses, 2.5 - 3 mm long. The stamens are subsessile, and the anther has a long appendage. The ovary is subglobose, 4 - sulcate, and glabrous. The style is 0.3 - 0.6 mm long, and the stigma is conical. The fruit is subglobose and entirely covered by the calyx. The nutlets have a diameter of almost 1.5 mm.
