Sphaerocodon

Benth.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Perennial herbs with a woody or tuberous rootstock; stems erect, often flexuous, not twining. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic or obovate. Flowers in sublateral, pedunculate, umbel-like cymes. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, with scales within base. Corolla 5-lobed to +/- halfway; tube campanulate. Corona of 5 small, fleshy tubercles arising from staminal column somewhat above its base. Staminal column arising from base of corolla tube; anthers with membranous margins, without apical appendages. Pollinia ellipsoidal, erect, with short caudicles. Follicles fat, single, pendulous.
Distribution: 
Species 2, Africa; both in sthn Afr., Namibia, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification: 
APOCYNACEAE

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