Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Small shrubs. Stipules with 3-5
linear setae. Leaves opposite or 3-nate. Flowers bisexual, dimorphic in
dense few-many-flowered terminal corymbose inflorescences. Calyx: tube
narrowly obconic; limb excentrically elliptic. Corolla:
tube narrowly cylindric; lobes 4-5 oblong or ovate; throat
densely hairy. Ovary 2-3-locular, each loculus with c.4-6 ovules.
Fruit indehiscent, obconic, sometimes curved, of bony texture,
strongly ribbed, the ribs running into the accrescent calyx,
1-2-seeded.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Carphalea Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1368
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Carphalea: Brief Summary
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