Description:
Mat-forming, glabrous, fleshy herbs. Leaves opposite, linear to narrowly spathulate, amplexicaul at base. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, dense, capitate or cylindric spikes. Flowers bisexual, strongly dorsally compressed, subtended by white, 1-nerved bracts. Tepals 5, inner 2 smaller and concave. Stamens 5; filaments widening and fused into a cup below; anthers 1-thecous; pseudostaminodes absent. Ovary 1-ovulate; style very short; stigmas 2, filiform. Capsule thin-walled, indehiscent.
Distribution:
Species 4, tropical America, W Africa and Japan; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Blutaparon vermiculare (L.) Mears, Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Philoxerus not of R.Br.; Keay: 153 (1954); Cavaco: 167 (1962).
Classification:
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