Distribution and habitat: It is an herb and distributed throughout hotter parts of India as weed in moist shady places.

Botany: A slender erect annual herb with a rosette of leaves on top of the stem. Stem 2.5-25 cm long, stout or slender, glabrous or hairy. 

• Leaf: Abruptly pinnate, sensitive, crowded into a rosette on the top of the stem 3.8-7.5 cm long; petiole short; rachis slender, glabrous or hairy. Leaflets opposite, 1 cm long, 6-12 pairs (the terminal pair largest, the pairs becoming smaller downwards), oblong, obliquely rounded and apiculate at the apex, subsessile, glabrous, paler beneath.
• Flowers: Dimorphic, 8 mm across, yellow. Peduncles many, of various lengths up to 10 cm long, slender, pubescent or glabrous; pedicels many, bracts lanceolate, small, crowded beneath the pedicels. Sepals lanceolate, acute, with parallel nerves. Corolla much exceeding the sepals, lobes rounded, spreading. Style nearly glabrous.
• Fruit: Capsule ellipsoid, apiculate, slightly exceeding the sepals. Cells few seeded.
• Seeds: Ovoid, transversely striate.

Properties: Astringent, anti-pyretic, anti-septic 

Uses: Whole plant used for cure of strangury, urinary calculi, hyperdipsia in bilious fevers, wounds, hemorrhage, cough, dysentery, abscesses, asthma, stomachalgia and snake bite. 

Formulations: Chemparutyadi tailam 

Propagation: Seed