Description:
Annuals or short-lived perennials with tough, wiry stems. Leaves opposite, +/-linear, entire. Inflorescences spiciform to capitate or cymose-fastigiate; bracts persistent, each subtending 1 or 2 flowers; bracteoles and perianth falling with fruit. Flowers bisexual. Tepals 5, indurate and +/-coalescent at base in fruit, glabrous to sparingly floccose in lower half. Stamens 5, shortly fused at base, alternating with fringed staminodes; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary uni-ovulate, glabrous to thinly hairy; style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule thin-walled, indehiscent.
Distribution:
Species 11, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 5, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Achyropsis (Moq.) Hook.f., in part; Psilotrichum Blume, in part; Robynsiella Suess.
Classification:
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