Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Streptophyta

Class: Equisetopsida

Subclass: Magnoliidae

Order: Gentianales

Family: Rubiaceae

Genus: Spermacoce

Species: hispida

Description :  Short branched, hairy herb, grow up to 15 cm tall. Stem is bluish and hispid, leaves are oblong- elliptic to obovate. Flowers are pinkish-white arise in leaf axils, they are campanulate, sessile, small, odorless, bisexual. Calyx has four valvate sepals, green, campanulate and united basally with pilose hairs, corolla is tubular, funnel shaped, ovary is bicarpellary, syncarpous, bilocular with a total of two ovules. 

USES: used to treat diarrhea, dyspepsia, general debility, dysentery, cancer etc.