Stachytarpheta
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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
Verbenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Herbs or subshrubs. Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, petiolate, usually toothed at margins. Rowers bisexual, solitary in the axils of minute bracts, sessile or sunken in rachis of terminal, elongate spikes; calyx tubular, with 5 equal teeth, enclosing the fruit; corolla trumpet-shaped, the limb spreading, with 5 rounded lobes; stamens 2, included, the filaments inserted on upper half of tube; staminodes 2; ovary 2-locular, each locule with a single ovule, the style elongate with a nearly capitate stigma. Fruit a dry, often woody schizocarp of 2 mericarps.
Distribution and Ecology - A genus of about 60 species, mostly of tropical America but introduced into the Old World tropics.