Leaves
opposite, petiolate or subsessile, simple, sometimes margin undulate
Flowers
in lateral umbels
Sepals
5, separate almost to base, sometimes nearly as long as corolla, with scales within sinuses
Corolla
with shortly campanulate tube and with lobes spreading or recurved at tips; greenish yellow
Corona
of 5 lobes; lobes as broad as long, or obcordate, adnate to basal portion of corolla tube, free above and slightly projecting beyond mouth of corolla tube, free from staminal column
Anthers
2-locular, with ovate, membranous, apical appendages
Pollinia
pendulous, with caudicles nearly as long as pollinia
Style
exserted beyond anther appendages or shorter and depressed at apex
Follicles
coriaceous, with few scattered protuberances
Seeds
elliptic, concave-convex, with prominent ridges
Nomenclature:
Parapodium
E.Mey.
Meyer: 221 (1838)
Brown: 557 (1907)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species 3, excluding Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Northern and Western Cape
MEYER, E.H.F. 1838.
Commentariorum de plantis Africae australioris
. Voss, Leipzig
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