Thunbergia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Acanthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs or herbaceous vines, with opposite, mostly hastate or cordate leaves, and large 2-bracted flowers solitary in the axils or in terminal racemes. Bracts foliaceous, large. Calyx short, annular. Corolla with an oblique, more or less flattened tube enlarged above, and a spreading 5-lobed limb, the lobes rounded, contorted, nearly equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, borne near the base of the corolla-tube, the filaments thickened below, the anthers with an apiculate connective. Disk fleshy. Ovary fleshy; style dilated at the apex; ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsule coriaceous, globose, abruptly beaked, loculicidally dehiscent. [Commemorates Karl P. Thunberg, 1743-1828, eminent Swedish traveller and botanist.] About 40 species, natives of the Old World tropics. Type species: Thuribergia capensis Retz.