Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Spreading shrubs.

Stems: Stems 3–5 dm long, many-branched, subglabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate or elliptic, 20–45 mm long, 5–12 mm wide. Apex acuminate. Base narrowly cuneate. Surfaces finely scabrous. Margins entire. Petioles 1–7 mm long. Stipules minute or absent.

Flowers: Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, pedicels 5–10 mm long. Calyx teeth 6, spreading, the lower ones slightly longer, usually with small appendages alternating with the teeth, valvate, appearing as lobes on the floral tube. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 6–14, conspicuously exserted unevenly 2–4 mm beyond the floral tube; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2–4(–6)-carpellate, with as many cells, at least at base, rarely 1-celled, placentation axile, rarely parietal when 1-celled; ovules 2 to numerous, anatropous, ascending; style 1, filiform; stigma slightly 2-lobed.

Fruit: Capsules membranous; oblong–ovoid; loculicidally dehiscent laterally; the adjacent wall of the floral tube also splitting along its length and the placenta projecting laterally out of the capsules; 8–10 mm long. Seeds (1) to numerous; reddish brown; suborbicular; ca. 2 mm in diameter; endosperm absent or very scanty.

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