Stemodia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Scrophulariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs or low shrubs, mostly glandular-pubescent and odorous, with opposite or verticillate leaves, the flowers solitary in the axils or in terminal, often leafy-bracted spikes or racemes. Calyx 5-parted, the segments imbricated, nearly distinct and equal. Corolla with a nearly cylindric tube and a 2- lipped limb, the upper lip notched or entire, erect, external in the bud, the lower 3dobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments filiform; anthersacs distinct, stipitate. Ovules many; style usually 2-lobed. Capsule 2- valved, the valves 2-cleft. Seeds striate or reticulated, small. [Greek, double stamens.] About 30 species, of tropical and subtropical regions, the following typical.