Thunbergia
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Authority
Leonard, Emery C. 1951. The Acanthaceae of Colombia, I. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 31: 1-117.
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Family
Acanthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbaceous vines, or shrubs; leaves usually hastate or cordate; flowers large, peduncled, axillary or borne in terminal racemes; bracts 2, foliaceous, large; calyx short, cupuliform, truncate or many-toothed; corolla with a slender tube enlarged into a spreading 5-lobed limb; stamens 4, didynamous, borne near the base of the corolla tube, the anthers with an apiculate connective, the lobes mucronulate at base; disc fleshy; ovary fleshy, the style dilated at apex; ovules 2 in each cavity; capsule coriaceous, abruptly flat-beaked, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds semi-globose, with a large excavation on the inner side.