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Creeping perennial herbs, rooting at the nodes. Leaves opposite, simple, subentire to toothed; lamina with appressed, medifixed hairs. Inflorescences ± long-pedunculate, axillary, short, ovoid to cylindric, very dense bracteate spikes. Calyx membranous, 2-lobed, flattened. Corolla with short tube and spreading irregularly ± 4-lobed limb. Stamens 4. Fruit of 2 nutlets, enclosed by a persistent calyx. Derivation of name: from the Greek phylon meaning a swarm or school, probably in reference to the spreading mat-like growth of these species. Worldwide: c. 11 species in tropical and warm areas Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| nodiflora (L.) Greene var. nodiflora | Description, Image |
| nodiflora (L.) Greene var. minor (Gillies & Hook.) N. O'Leary & Múlgura |
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