Heimia

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Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite-decussate, ternate or alternate, deciduous. Flowers 5-7-merous, solitary, homostylous. Calyx with appendages. Petals as many as calyx lobes, yellow. Stamens twice as many as calyx lobes, arising a quarter- to a third-way up on calyx tube. Ovary sessile, 3-6-locular; style longer than stamens; stigma broadly capitate. Capsule subcoriaceous, 3-6-loculicidal. x = 8.
Distribution: 
Species 3 (or possibly 4), occurring naturally from Texas to Argentina and in Jamaica; 1 in sthn Afr.: * Heimia myrtifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Kuntze, an adventive.
Classification: 
LYTHRACEAE

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