Description:
Straggling, many-stemmed shrubs with scandent branches, or small trees. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate; rachis narrowly winged; leaflets 2-6-jugate, ovate to elliptic. Flowers in terminal racemes or racemose panicles. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed +/-to middle of tube; lobes broadly triangular. Corolla : tube narrowly funnel-shaped, almost cylindric, curved; corolla limb bilabiate, 5-lobed, orange to scarlet. Stamens didynamous, exserted; filaments adnate to corolla up to about middle of tube, pubescent-glandular at base; thecae connate in upper third, slightly divergent below. Disc cupular. Ovary bilocular; ovules many, 4-seriate in each locule. Capsule linear-oblong in outline, compressed, dehiscing at right angles to septum. Seeds with membranous wings, +/-rectangular in outline.
Distribution:
Monotypic genus: Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach, sthn trop. and sthn Afr.; 2 subspecies occur in the region: subsp. capensis in Mozambique, and subsp. nyassae (Oliv.) Brummitt in NE Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and sthn Afr.; subsp. capensis is widely cultivated as ornamental in the tropics and subtropics.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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