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| Vernacular name | Makardana | |
| Scientific name | Mecardonia procubens Link. & Otto., Bacopa procumbens, Erinus procumbens | |
| Family | Scrophulariaceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | A creeping perennial prostrate herb, | |
| Leaves | Oppositely ovate to elliptic, with a wedge-shaped base and margin coarsely toothed. The tip-blunt. charataceous, penninerved. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Yellow flowers in leaf axils, four petals with reddish lines entering the throat. The upper petal 2 joined petals. 3 lower petals, and 3 green bracts at their base. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Capsule oblong-cylindric, loculicidal. Seeds rectangular. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Moist places | |
| Flowering and fruiting | November - April | |
| Associated with | Arable uplands | |
| Habit | A creeping perennial prostrate herb | |
| Inflorescence | Yellow flowers in leaf axils, four petals with reddish lines entering the throat. The upper petal 2 joined petals. 3 lower petals, and 3 green bracts at their base | |
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