Leaves opposite, simple, entire or toothed, deciduous, petiolate
Flowers irregular, in axillary or terminal cymes; bracts small, deciduous
Calyx coloured, membranous, with obconic or campanulate tube; lobed or subtruncate, limb broadly expanded, very accrescent to form an entire or 5-lobed, usually venose, rotate, plate-like structure in fruit
Corolla pink, blue and shades of purple; tube gibbous, very asymmetric, contracted beneath limb, split dorsally almost to base; limb 5-lobed and ± 1-lipped; glandular
Stamens 4, arising on upper part of corolla tube; filaments long-exserted, linear with hairy ridge at base
Ovary imperfectly 4-locular, densely hairy and glandular on upper part; style long-exserted, filamentous, 2-lobed
Fruit dry and hard, turbinate or turbinate-obpyramidal, rounded above or ± flat and with 4 small horns in a cross, at length dividing into 4 pyrenes
Nomenclature:
Karomia Dop
Dop: 1052 (1932)
Phillips: 640 (1951) under Holmskioldia Retz.
Verdcourt: 82 (1992)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 9, 1 in SE Asia, 8 in Africa and Madagascar
Southern Africa: Species 1: Karomia speciosa (Hutch. & Corbishley) R.Fern., Mpumalanga, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal
References:
DOP, P. 1932. Karomia. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, sér. 2,4
PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
VERDCOURT, B. 1992. Flora of tropical East Africa. Verbenaceae
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