Schinziella

Gilg
Description: 
Erect perennial herbs. Stems not or sparsely branched from base. Leaves sessile, upper ones much reduced and scale-like. Flowers 4-merous, in compact, pedunculate, terminal heads. Calyx tube as long as lobes. Corolla regular with a cylindric tube and with 4 lobes +/- as long as tube, without nectaries. Stamens 4, unequal, 3 sterile, 1 larger, fertile. Ovary cylindric-ovoid, unilocular; ovules many; style filiform; stigma bilobed. Capsule narrowly obovoid, bivalved. Seeds many, subglobose.
Distribution: 
Monotypic genus: Schinziella tetragona (Schinz) Gilg, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr.: Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
GENTIANACEAE

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith