Botany
Stems are stout, erect and creeping below. Leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 9 cm long, 1 - 2 cm wide, sessile or petioled. The panicles are short-stalked, pyramidal with long, erect or ascending, many-flowered branches. Flowers are small and subglobose. Sepals are villous and the petals are white, lilac or rosy. Capsules are 2-3 mm long, orbicular or ellipsoid and compressed. Seeds are glaucous.

Distribution
In wet places, along streams, in low and medium altitudes.

Parts utilized
Whole plant.

Folkloric uses
Juice squeeze into the eyes for sore eyes and ophthalmia.
Plant is used for broken bones.

Availability
Wild-crafted.