Table 1.

Botanical morphology of Heliotropium indicum L.

Habitat	The disturbed areas are garden or lawns, roadsides, anthropogenic habitats, and waste places. It is mostly found at a 1,000 m altitude.
Foliage	Leaves	4–10 cm long and 2–5 cm wide, opposite, or sub-opposite, alternate or sub-alternate, ovate to obovate, and acute, with a wavy or undulate, serrulate, or cordate leaf margin, nerves on either side or veins. The leaf surface is covered with short hairs, which may be quite stiff.
	Petiole	1–7 cm long with a sub-truncate base or ovate
Flowers	4–5 mm wide, regular, sessile, axillary, and slightly purple or white or whitish violet with a small yellow center and having a narrow tube with lobes formed a plate shape
	Inflorescence	String or twisted of beads with a prominent curl at the apex. Flowers develop apically within the cymose inflorescence.
	Sepals	5 in number, 3 mm long, diffused with hairs outside, deep green in color, linear to lanceolate, and uneven or unequal
	Calyx lobes ciliate	3 mm long
	Stamens	5 in number and borne in a corolla tube, terminal, and corolla tube 4–6 mm long
	Petals	Rounded
	Ovary	4 lobed
Fruits	Fruits, also known as nutlets, are dry, indehiscent 2–4 lobed, 3–6 mm long, with or without united nutlets, ovate, and ribbed separated into two nutlets. Each nutlet is two-celled and beaked.
Stem and roots	Wide distributed, branched or unbranched, and hirsute with hairs in the stem. The root system is a long taproot and highly branched.
Genetics	2n = 22, 24