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STEPHANOPHYSUM Pohl
Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Perennial herbs, erect or prostrate, or shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, petiolate or sessile; margins entire. Inflorescence axillary or terminal; either solitary or in cymes or panicles; bracts inconspicuous. Flowers often showy in cultivated species, red, yellow, purple or white. Calyx deeply 5-partite; lobes linear or lanceolate. Corolla tube usually straight, with 5 ± equal lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous. Fruit a capsule. Seeds 4-20 flattened, ovate or orbicular on strong retinacula. Derivation of name: After Jean de la Ruelle, 1474 - 1537, French physician and botanist. Worldwide: 250 species in tropical and temperate regions. Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| brevifolia (Pohl) Ezcurra | |
| elegans Poir. | |
| makoyana Closon | |
| simplex C. Wright |
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