Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes subshrubby. leaves
alternate, rarely subopposite. Cymes spike-like, usually
scorpioid, terminal or pseudoaxillary, simple or branched; rarely flowers solitary, supra-axillary. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous. Corolla
salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, white, yellow or blue. Stamens included. Ovary 4-celled, entire or subentire. Style terminal. Fruit dry, usually splitting at maturity
into four 1-seeded nutlets, free or cohering in pairs or remaining entire and 1-seeded by abortion.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Heliotropium Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1195
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings