Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves large, elliptic, entire or obscurely undulate-crenate. Inflorescence axillary, pedunculate thyrses; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx regular, glabrous; lobes 5; tube longer than lobes, campanulate. Corolla 2-lipped, minutely pubescent; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, rugula distinct, staminal channels present; lower lip 3-lobed, with middle lobe oblong and others falcately oblong, with two gibbosities at base without; aestivation ascending; tube shorter than lobes, subcampanulate. Androecium: fertile stamens 2, arising in mouth of corolla, exserted; filaments terete; anthers 2-thecous; thecae parallel, muticous; staminodes 0. Pollen prolate, 2-colporate, with pseudocolpi; surface reticulate. Disc deeply cupular, with V-shaped slit, with 2 awns. Gynoecium: ovary subglobose, with 2 ovules in each locule, densely hairy; style terete, running in rugula, exserted; style branches 2, equal, very short, broader than long. Capsule woody, club-shaped, tomentose, stipitate, with inelastic placental bases. Seeds semiorbicular, compressed; surface rough and convolute or rugose.
Distribution:
Species 2, Mozambique and sthn Afr.; both in Swaziland and eastern provinces of South Africa.
Classification:
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