Asystasia

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Acanthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Asystasia

• Description

  Genus Description - Perennial herbs. Leaves with abundant cystoliths at maturity. Flowers in terminal, unilateral spikes or racemes, each flower subtended by 2 small bracts and 2 bracteoles; calyx with 5 linear or lanceolate, equal sepals; corolla lilac, rose, white, or light yellow, funnel-shaped, zygomorphic, with 5 rounded lobes; stamens 4, didynamous; stigma 2-lobed or capitate. Capsule ellipsoid or clubshaped; seeds 2-4 per capsule, lenticular.