Perennial herbs, erect or twining, with tuberous, sometimes very large and partially exposed rootstock
Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, linear or elliptic, sometimes undulate
Flowers in small, axillary clusters or cymes
Sepals shorter than corolla tube
Corolla with campanulate tube; lobes longer than tube, lanceolate to filiform
Corona complex, arising near mouth or towards base of corolla tube together with staminal column, longer than staminal column, tubular, toothed at top and with 1-3 superposed series of 5 teeth or filiform processes placed between or decurrent as 5 pairs of wings within tube
Staminal column arising near mouth or towards base of corolla tube
Anthers 2-locular, with very large, membranous appendages
Pollinia erect; caudicles short
Style minutely 2-lobed
Follicles fusiform, usually acuminate
Seeds obovate or elliptic, flattish, with a marginal wing
Nomenclature:
Fockea Endl.
Endlicher: 17 (1839)
Brown: 777 (1908)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 6, tropical and southern Africa
Southern Africa: Species 6, widespread in arid regions
ENDLICHER, S.L. 1839. Fockea. In S.L. Endlicher & E. Fenzl, Novarum stirpium decades. Sollinger, Vienna
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