Description:
Perennial, small, creeping herbs; stems rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate, petiolate, suborbicular-reniform, crenate to incised. Flowers axillary, 4- to 8-merous, solitary or fasciculate, pedicellate. Pedicels ebracteate. Calyx 4-8-lobed; lobes somewhat unequal. Corolla rotate; tube short; lobes equalling calyx in number or one more, entire, subequal, spreading. Stamens 4-8, equalling corolla lobes or one or two less; filaments short, filiform, subequal; anthers sagittate; thecae contiguous at apex. Style short; stigma capitate. Capsule somewhat compressed, loculicidal. Seeds few, oblong-ovoid, reticulate or smooth.
Distribution:
Species 5, Western Europe, Azores, Balearic Islands, America and trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Sibthorpia europaea L., Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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