Thunbergia
-
Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
-
Family
Acanthaceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Description
Description - Herbaceous or woody vines or less frequently erect shrubs. Leaves opposite; blades simple; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, axillary, usually solitary, with long pedicels and a pair of foliaceous bracts covering the lower portion of the corolla. Calyx short, cupuliform, truncate or dentate; corolla infiindibuliform or hypocrateriform, large and showy, regular or irregular; stamens didynamous; ovary superior, biearpellate, bilocular. Fruits capsular, globose at the base, with the apex in the form of a beak; seeds subglobose. Approximately 200 species of the Paleotropics, 12 of which have been cultivated and have become naturalized in the Neotropics.