7283.000 Achyrospermum Blume

Leistner, O.A. (2005) Seed plants of southern tropical Africa: families and genera SABONET Report No. 26 SABONET, Pretoria

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves petiolate, crenate. Inflorescences of flowers in dense terminal or lateral spike-like panicles. Bracts ovate, sessile, cuspidate, sparsely pubescent with ciliate margin covering the the axis between the verticils. Calyx 10-nerved; teeth 5, subequal. Corolla: tube funnel-shaped to cylindric; limb 2-lipped; upper lip curved; lower lip reflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, fertile, didynamous, all directed to upper side of tube or upper lip of corolla. Nutlets obovoid, reticulate.

Worldwide: c. 10 species in the Old World tropics

Malawi: 4 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
aethiopicum Welw.	S
carvalhoi Gürke var. carvalhoi	C	Description, Image
cryptanthum Baker	N	Description, Image
laterale Baker	N,S

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