Thunbergia
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Acanthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Herbaceous or woody climbers, often twining, or less often shrubs. Leaves without cystoliths. Flowers usually solitary at with long pedicels and a pair of foliaceous bracts covering the basal portion of the corolla; calyx short, cupuliform, truncate or manytoothed; corolla funnel-shaped or salverform, large, showy, regular or irregular; stamens 4, didynamous. Capsule globose at base, with a beaked apex; seeds nearly globose.
Distribution and Ecology - Approximately 200 species in the Old World tropics, with about a dozen cultivated or naturalized in the American tropics.