Batopedina

Verdc.
Description: 
Subshrubs with many branches from a thick woody rootstock, often tufted. Leaves opposite but sometimes appearing verticillate, linear to ovate; stipules with 3-5 short lobes from a short base. Flowers heterostylous, solitary or paired, axillary or at apices of branchlets. Calyx: tube ovoid; lobes unequal, one foliaceous and rest minute or of varying sizes. Corolla: tube filiform, enlarged at apex; throat hairy inside; lobes 5, ovate. Stamens 5, included or exserted. Ovary 2-locular with many ovules; style included or exserted; stigma lobes filiform. Capsule ovoid, splitting into 2 cocci. Seeds many; testa finely striate.
Distribution: 
Species 3, Upper Volta, Ghana, DRC; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Batopedina linearifolia (Bremek.) Verdc., in Zambia. Doubtfully distinct from Otomeria Benth.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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