Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Herbs or rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, pinnate or palmate. Stipules 0. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous. Disk hypogynous. Calyx lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or rotate. Stamens attached to the corolla, alternating with corolla lobes. Ovary superior, usually 3-locular; placentas axile. Ovules usually many in each loculus, Style 1, usually 3-fid. Fruit a usually loculicidal capsule.
- 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). Polemoniaceae Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=267
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
