- Scientific Name: Neanotis hirsuta (L.f.) W.H.Lewis
- Ref: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 53:38. 1966
- Synonyms: Anotis capitata Korth., Anotis hirsuta (L.f.) Miq. ex Backer & Slooten, Anotis papuana Lauterb., Hedyotis hirsuta (L.f.) Forsyth f., Hedyotis japonica (Miq.) Masam., Hedyotis lindleyana Hook. ex Wight & Arn., Hedyotis stipulata R.Br. ex Hook.f., Hedyotis yakusimensis (Masam.) Masam., Oldenlandia hirsuta L.f., Oldenlandia japonica Miq., Oldenlandia stipulata Pit., Oldenlandia yakusimensis Masam.
- Chinese Common Name: 薄叶新耳草 báoyè xīn’ěr∙cǎo
- Japanese Common Name: ハシカグサ [麻疹草] hashikagusa
- Family: Rubiaceae
- Genus: Neanotis
- Distribution: Wet sites at streamsides or in forests; 500-1000(-1500) m. Guangdong, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [?Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam].
- Photo: 07/25/2012, Mt. Emei, Sichuan
Herbs, perennial, lower stems decumbent and upper stems apparently ascending; stems terete to 4-angled, glabrous to hirtellous in lines or throughout, angles sometimes thickened. Leaves petiolate; petiole 1-5 mm, glabrous to hirtellous or hispid; blade drying papery, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, 1-5.5 × 0.5-2 cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely to moderately strigillose, scaberulous, or hirtellous, abaxially densely hirtellous or glabrous except sparsely strigillose or puberulent on principal veins, base rounded to cuneate, apex acute; secondary veins 3-5 pairs; stipules rounded to triangular, 1-2 mm, glabrous to hirtellous, laciniate to setose, lobes or bristles 3-7, 0.5-5 mm, glabrous to ciliate. Inflorescences terminal and/or pseudoaxillary, laxly cymose, branched to 2 or 3 orders often asymmetrically, with flowers borne separately or in glomerules of 2-5, glabrous or hirtellous; peduncle 0.8-3 cm; bracts laciniate or stipuliform, 0.5-2 mm. Flowers sessile or subsessile, floral biology unknown. Calyx glabrous to densely hirtellous; hypanthium portion obconic, ca. 1 mm; limb divided essentially to base; lobes linear-lanceolate, 1-2 mm. Corolla white, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube 3.5-4 mm, puberulent or perhaps pubescent inside; lobes ovate to triangular, 2.2-3 mm. Capsule compressed globose, 2-2.5 × 2.5-3 mm, glabrous to hirtellous. Fl. and fr. Jun-Oct. (Flora of China)