Oldenlandia

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Rubiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Oldenlandia

• Description

  Description - Herbs, with opposite leaves, and small white or pink flowers. Calyx-tube obovoid or subglobose, the limb 4 5-toothed. Corolla rotate or salverform, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous in each cavity; style slender, 2-lobed. Capsule small, ovoid, top-shaped or hemispheric, wholly adnate to the calyx tube, loculicidally dehiscent at the summit. Seeds angular, not peltate; endosperm fleshy; embryo club-shaped. [Named for H. B. Oldenland, a Danish botanist.] About 175 species, mostly of tropical distribution. Type species: Oldenlandia corymbosa L.