Description:
Pilose creeping perennial herbs with leafy stems. Leaves alternate, orbicular, coarsely 5-9-lobed and toothed, petiolate. Flowers in few-flowered, extra-axillary, short-peduncled racemes, pedicellate and bracteate, inconspicuous. Calyx: segments 5, free or somewhat accrescent, persistent. Corolla campanulate, with 5 lobes +/- as long as corolla. Stamens 5, opposite petals; filaments short, connate below into a continuous ring fused at base to corolla tube; anthers apiculate. Ovary multi-ovulate. Capsule globose, dehiscent by 5 apical valves or indehiscent, many-seeded; seeds angular, blackish, papillose.
Distribution:
Species 3, endemic to the mountains of trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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