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Small perennial herbs, often flowering before the leaves are fully developed. Lamina elliptic, glabrous. Inflorescence racemose, lateral. Corolla with a tube and 3 petals. Androecium composed of a 3-lobed labellum (the central lobe usually deeply divided) and a single stamen with basal anthers and a long petaloid apical part, at least twice as long as the basal anther. Stigma glabrous.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Siphonochilus Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=397
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Siphonochilus

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Siphonochilus is a genus of plants native to sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Siphonochilus: Brief Summary

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Siphonochilus is a genus of plants native to sub-Saharan Africa.

Siphonochilus aethiopicus (Schweinf.) B.L.Burtt - widespread from Ethiopia west to Sierra Leone and south to South Africa Siphonochilus bambutiorum A.D.Poulsen & Lock - Zaïre Siphonochilus brachystemon (K.Schum.) B.L.Burtt - eastern Africa from Sudan to Mozambique Siphonochilus kilimanensis (Gagnep.) B.L.Burtt - Mozambique Siphonochilus kirkii (Hook.f.) B.L.Burtt - eastern and central Africa from Sudan and Central African Republic south to South Africa Siphonochilus longitubus Lock - Zambia Siphonochilus nigericus (Hutch. ex Hepper) B.L.Burtt - Nigeria, Ghana Siphonochilus parvus Lock - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi Siphonochilus pleianthus (K.Schum.) Lock - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia Siphonochilus puncticulatus (Gagnep.) Lock - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia Siphonochilus rhodesicus (T.C.E.Fr.) Lock - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaïre
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