3686.000 Parochetus Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Herbs, prostrate, rooting at nodes. Stipules free of somewhat adnate to petiole. Leaves digitately trifoliate, leaflets obcordate, margins entire or shallowly lobed; petioles long. Inflorescence umbellate, 2-4-flowered, or flowers sometimes solitary, axillary; bracts stipule-like. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; petals blue or purplish, glabrous, deciduous. Fruit linear-oblong, acute, somewhat compressed. Seeds may reniform, hilum lateral.

Worldwide: 2 species 1 in tropical Asia and 1 in tropical Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
communis D. Don var. africanus (Polhill) Chaudhary & Sanjappa	N,S	Description, Image

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