Margaretta

Oliv.
Description: 
Herbaceous perennials with a carrot-shaped tuberous rootstock; stems usually simple. Leaves opposite, subsessile. Inflorescence terminal and lateral, umbellate. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, commonly revolute. Corona 5-lobed, petaloid, more showy than corolla, variable in shape, 2- or 3-toothed on claw. Style head capitate, hemispherical, subconical, truncate or obtuse. Follicles in pairs, fusiform, beaked, smooth, pubescent; fruiting pedicel not contorted.
Distribution: 
Monotypic genus: Margaretta rosea Oliv., trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2 subspecies, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
APOCYNACEAE

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