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Gentianaceae - Neurotheca Salisb. ex Benth.

Description:

  • Herbs, mainly rather wiry annuals
  • Leaves opposite
  • Flowers solitary, rarely 2 in each axil, in long or short racemes or crowded in terminal corymb-like clusters
  • Calyx tubular, 4-lobed, 8-12-ribbed
  • Corolla white, 4-lobed; tube narrowly funnel-shaped or cylindric; lobes ovate, contorted
  • Stamens 4, arising below middle of corolla tube and reaching to its mouth or slightly exserted
  • Ovary 1-locular, oblong; placentas very slightly intruded; ovules many; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed
  • Capsule 2-valved, membranous
  • Seeds minute, reticulate
  • x = 15 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Neurotheca Salisb. ex Benth.
    • Bentham: 812 (1876)
    • Baker & Brown: 559 (1903)
    • Paiva & Nogueira: 4 (1990)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 3, tropical Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Neurotheca schlechteri Gilg ex Baker & N.E.Br., KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BAKER, J.G. & BROWN, N.E. 1903. Gentianeae. Flora of tropical Africa 4,1
  • BENTHAM, G. 1876. Gentianeae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 2. Reeve, London
  • PAIVA, J.A.R. & NOGUEIRA, I. 1990. Gentianaceae. Flora zambesiaca 7,4