Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Perennial herbs, often decumbent, with creeping rhizomes which root at the nodes.
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, entire to dentate. Flowers in axillary 3-11-flowered fascicles, 4-merous. Calyx lobes 4, persistent. Petals 4. Fruit an indehiscent nutlet, with (in ours) 4-8 tuberculate ribs.
- 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). Laurembergia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1027
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
