Cryptostegia
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Apocynaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Twining lianas or scandent shrubs, producing abundant milky latex. Stems cylindrical, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves opposite, petiolate; blades simple, without glands; stipules interpetiolar, minute. Flowers in terminal cymes. Calyx campanulate, of 5 more or less elongate sepals; corolla infundibuliform; corona of 5 filiform lobes; stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla, the filaments short and free, the anthers lanceolate, concrescent around the stigma; ovary superior, bicarpellate, the stigma capitate. Fruit of 2 divergent, woody, boat-shaped follicles, with numerous ovate seeds, crowned with a tuft of long hairs. A genus of 2 species, native to the Old World tropics.