Micrargeria

Benth.
Description: 
Annual, rigid, erect, branched herbs. Leaves opposite to alternate, linear, entire or trifid. Flowers small, solitary-axillary or terminally racemose, bi-bracteolate. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; lobes ovate to lanceolate, acute or obtuse. Corolla limb subequally 5-lobed; lobes entire; tube enlarged above, sometimes incurved. Stamens 4, somewhat didynamous, included; anthers free, bithecal; thecae arched or parallel, distinct, apically attached. Ovary 2-4-locular; ovules many. Capsule globose to subglobose. Seeds many, obovoid.
Distribution: 
Species 5, tropical west, east and southern Africa with 1 in India; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Micrargeria filiformis (Schumach. & Thonn.) Hutch. & Dalz., Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, and sthn Afr.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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