Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrublets or shrubs, stiffly twiggy. Leaves shortly petiolate, +/- spatulate, shortly pubescent. Flowers small, few together in subsessile or shortly pedicellate, extra-axillary umbels or fascicles. Calyx much shorter than corolla, puberulous, 5-parted. Corolla narrowly campanulate, 5-lobed to about middle, glabrous outside, bearded within. Corona of 5 fleshy lobes arising from and adnate to staminal column, with free tips. Staminal column arising from base of corolla. Anthers with a cartilaginous margin, terminated by membranous appendages which are applied to base of elongated beak; pollinia small, +/- ellipsoid, erect-inclined, with short, slender caudicles and a small corpuscle. Staminal column elongate, subcylindric; carpels 2-ovulate. Fruit of 2 one-seeded follicles.
Distribution:
Species 3, Africa; 1 in sthn Afr: Stigmatorhynchus hereroensis Schltr., Namibia.
Classification:
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