Source:
SSA
Description:
Suffrutices or shrubs. Leaves petiolate, entire. Inflorescence terminal, thyrses; bracts and bracteoles small, linear. Calyx regular, glabrous; lobes 5, linear; tube shorter than lobes. Corolla 2-lipped, glabrous or nearly so; upper lip emarginate or deeply 2-lobed, rugula indistinct; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes oblong, +/- as long as tube; aestivation ascending; tube narrowly campanulate. Androecium: fertile stamens 2, arising in mouth of corolla, exserted; filaments broadly linear; anthers monothecous; theca muticous; staminodes 2. Pollen spheroidal, 3-colporate, with pseudocolpi; surface reticulate. Disc saucer-shaped, unusually large, with a projection perhaps representing a fifth stamen. Gynoecium: ovary with 2 ovules in each locule; style terete, exserted, thinly hairy on lower part; style branches 2, equal, very short, broader than long. Capsule club-shaped, stipitate, with inelastic placental bases; stalk long. Seeds compressed, elliptic, dorsiventral, rimmed; surface smooth.
Distribution:
Species 3, Africa; 1 in sthn Afr.: Ruttyaovata Harv., Swaziland and northern and eastern provinces of South Africa.
Classification:
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