Monographs Details:
Authority:
Leonard, Emery C. 1958. The Acanthaceae of Colombia, III. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 31: 323-781.
Leonard, Emery C. 1958. The Acanthaceae of Colombia, III. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 31: 323-781.
Family:
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae
Description:
Description - Herbs or shrubs; leaves opposite, petiolate, usually ovate to oblong and entire, flowers spicate, paniculate or solitary; bracts various, small, linear or subulate, distant, to large, conspicuous and imbricate; calyx segments usually narrow and nearly equal, 5 or, in some species, 4 in number; corollas usually white, pink or purple, sometimes with purple or white makings in throat, the tube usually rather narrow, short to long, the limb 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed; stamens 2, often slightly exserted but usually not exceeding the corolla, lips; anther cells 2, more or less superposed, one or both cells apiculate or tailed, the connective narrow to broad, the lobes parallel or obliquely affixed; capsules clavate, 4-seeded.
Description - Herbs or shrubs; leaves opposite, petiolate, usually ovate to oblong and entire, flowers spicate, paniculate or solitary; bracts various, small, linear or subulate, distant, to large, conspicuous and imbricate; calyx segments usually narrow and nearly equal, 5 or, in some species, 4 in number; corollas usually white, pink or purple, sometimes with purple or white makings in throat, the tube usually rather narrow, short to long, the limb 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed; stamens 2, often slightly exserted but usually not exceeding the corolla, lips; anther cells 2, more or less superposed, one or both cells apiculate or tailed, the connective narrow to broad, the lobes parallel or obliquely affixed; capsules clavate, 4-seeded.