[4] It is naturalised in Tasmania, over much of Africa, in Japan, and in Myanmar.

[5] Alternanthera nodiflora is an erect annual herb.

The leaves, too, are almost without a covering and are linear, 2-8 cm long and have smooth margins.

The name is accepted by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria,[1] by Plants of the World online,[5] but is considered a synonym of Alternanthera sessilis by Catalogue of Life.

[7] The specific epithet, nodiflora, derives from the Latin, nodus,( "knot" or "node") and flos, floris ("flower") to give an adjective describing the plant as having flowers arranged in a knot-shaped inflorescence or flowering at the nodes.