English: Bitter Cumin; Bitter Leaf; Indian Chickweed; Jima.
Region: tropical Africa, tropical and subtropical Asia, India; northern Australia.
Habitat: dry regions, seasonally swampy, in dried-up pools and ditches, on rice-fields; sandy localities near the sea; plains up to 100 meters, to 275 meters.
Use: leaves, cooked, as a vegetable; medicine.

BotanyHerb; annual; erect or almost prostrate; 30 cm tall.
Root: strongish taproot.
Stem: much-branched; 10 to 60 cm long.
Leaves: bitter flavour.