Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Erblichia Seem.: 130, t. 27 (1854).
Description:
Small shrublets, variously pubescent with simple hairs, aromatic. Leaves subsessile, serrate, with large, sessile, circular glands on lower surface; stipules minute or 0. Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx: sepals fused in lower third, forming a cup. Petals arising in throat of calyx tube, obovate, clawed, alternating with calyx lobes and together forming a fimbriate annulus in the throat. Stamens hypogynous, with long or short filaments. Ovary: ovules many, uni- to multi-seriate; styles 3, heterostylous. Capsule globose, hairy. Seed straight or slightly curved, reticulate; aril unilateral, as long as or shorter than seed. x = 7 (polyploidy).
Distribution:
Species +/- 20, mostly South American, warm parts of Africa and Madagascar; 1 in sthn Afr.: Piriqueta capensis (Harv.) Urb., widespread in Northern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification:
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