Description:
Perennial herbs with a stout rootstock and slender erect stems. Leaves opposite to alternate, broadly elliptic to almost filiform, entire. Inflorescences capitate, dense; bracts each subtending 1 flower, persistent after fruit falls; bracteoles deciduous with fruiting perianth. Flowers bisexual. Tepals 5, 3-5-nerved, free, glabrous. Stamens 5; filaments free, delicate, flattened; pseudostaminodes tooth-like or notched, alternating with stamens; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary uni-ovulate, densely lanate at least in upper two-thirds; style elongate; stigma capitate. Capsule thin-walled, irregularly dehiscent. Seeds somewhat compressed, yellow or reddish.
Distribution:
Species 2, Central Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Zambia.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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