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Erect or scrambling glabrous shrubs with supra-axillary spiny modified lateral branchlets. Stipules shortly connate at base. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary, supra-axillary, large, bisexual, 5-merous. Calyx tube cylindric; lobes small. Corolla trumpet-shaped, longitudinally ribbed; lobes contorted to the left. Ovary 1-locular. Style club-shaped. Fruit ± thin-walled with dark green longitudinal ribs and crowned by the persistent calyx. Seeds lenticular, the coat fibrous with a ± fingerprint-like pattern.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Didymosalpinx Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1382
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
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Didymosalpinx is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical Africa.
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