Description
(
Inglês
)
fornecido por Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual or perennial herbs or small
subshrubs. Stems often 4-angled. Leaves opposite or in false whorls.
Stipular sheath present, divided into 1-many fimbriae. Flowers
bisexual, usually in axillary many flowered clusters (which may run
together to form a spike-like inflorescence); less often in terminal
capitula. Flowers frequently intermixed with numerous ±
scarious, filiform bracteoles. Calyx lobes 2-4(-8). Corolla
funnel-shaped or salver-shaped; lobes (3-)4. Stamens 4, anthers
usually exserted. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit usually a
2-valved capsule.
- licença
- cc-by-nc
- direitos autorais
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citação bibliográfica
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Spermacoce Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1423
- autor
- Mark Hyde
- autor
- Bart Wursten
- autor
- Petra Ballings