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Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Trees or shrubs, stellate hairy. Leaves alternate, lamina simple, dentate, serrate, often oblique. Inflorescence cymes, axillary, pedunclulate. Flowers white, pink or yellow, actinomorphic, bracteates; calyx 2-5 lobed or partite, lobes reflexed; petals 5, hooded, apex with a long deeply bifid liguliform appendage, valvate. Fruit capsules, sub-globose, ligneous, woody. Seeds small, endospermic. Worldwide: Species 4 in tropical America. Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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