Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Erect or climbing shrubs, with milky latex. Leaves in whorls of 3-4, sometimes opposite, entire. Flowers bisexual, large and showy. Inflorescences of lax few-flowered racemes at the ends of the branches. Calyx deeply 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate-funnelform, yellow, pink or purple; tube cylindric with hairs or hairy scales at throat. Stamens inserted at mouth of corolla tube; anthers not united with the stigma.
Ovary 1-locular; ovules many. Fruit a spiny capsule, splitting into 2 valves. Seeds many, flattened, winged.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Allamanda Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1646
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings