Nothosaerva

Wight
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Annual herbs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire. Inflorescences in dense, sessile, solitary or clustered spikes, or flowers solitary in axils of scarious bracts. Flowers bisexual, very small; bracteoles 2, very small. Tepals 3 or 4(5), free, hyaline, villous, with a green band, subtended by 2 very small bracteoles. Stamens 1 or 2; filaments filiform; intermediate pseudostaminodes 0; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary globose-ovoid; ovule solitary, pendulous, radicle ascending; style short; stigma capitate. Capsule delicate, irregularly rupturing. Seed rounded, compressed; perisperm/endosperm copious.
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Nothosaerva brachiata (L.) Wight in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Mauritius and tropical Africa from Senegal eastwards to Ethiopia and N Somalia southwards to sthn Afr., Northern Province and N KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification: 
AMARANTHACEAE

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