Virectaria
Bridson, D.M. (1998) Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2)
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubby herbs with erect or procumbent stems from a fibrous rootstock. Leaves paired. Stipules small, limbs free, entire. Flowers small, in few- to many-flowered cymose clusters at the apices of the main shoots. Calyx tube ovoid or urceolate; lobes 5–6, spathulate, filiform or lanceolate with small glands between each pair; corolla tube filiform to narrowly infundibuliform, lobes 4–6(7), deltoid to lanceolate, suberect. Fruit capsule, subglobose, splitting in a plane at right angles to the central partition into 2 valves one of which often falls away. Seeds small, brownish, subglobose. Worldwide: Seven species in tropical Africa. Rwanda: 2 taxa. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): VirectariaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Virectaria
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