Monographs Details:
Authority:
Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.
Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.
Family:
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae
Description:
Description - Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes woody below, occasionally shrubby and scrambling, with ystoliths; stems obscurely hexagonal; inflorescence of small bracteate cymes in axils of upper leaves forming loose, terminal spikes or ankles; corolla strongly bilabiate, usually resupinate, pink, red, orange or white; stamens 2; anthers 2-thecous; capsule 4-seeded, the placenta rising from base as fruit ripens. Between 80 and 150 species of Dicliptera are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Although readily recognized by its hexagonal stems and the flattened, bracted cymes, the genus resents difficulties at the specific level.
Description - Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes woody below, occasionally shrubby and scrambling, with ystoliths; stems obscurely hexagonal; inflorescence of small bracteate cymes in axils of upper leaves forming loose, terminal spikes or ankles; corolla strongly bilabiate, usually resupinate, pink, red, orange or white; stamens 2; anthers 2-thecous; capsule 4-seeded, the placenta rising from base as fruit ripens. Between 80 and 150 species of Dicliptera are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Although readily recognized by its hexagonal stems and the flattened, bracted cymes, the genus resents difficulties at the specific level.