Description:
Small, erect annual herbs; stems slender. Leaves opposite, glabrous, subsessile; stipular sheath divided into subulate lobes. Flowers bisexual, dimorphic. Inflorescence a terminal spike or head. Calyx: lobes +/- 5, 1 or 2 of them small and leaf-like, the others minute. Corolla: tube filiform, slender, densely villous around the mouth; lobes 5, oblong-ovate with valvate aestivation. Stamens in long-styled flowers included, in short-styled ones exserted. Ovary bilocular; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit 2-lobed, each lobe subglobose, strongly papillate.
Distribution:
Species 2, endemic to DRC and Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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