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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Perennial herbs or shrubs; stem nodes swollen. Leaves simple, opposite; margins entire. Inflorescence consisting of erect racemes with relatively long and conspicuous bracts; calyx 5-merous with unequal lobes. Corolla almost actinomorphic with a cylindric tube and 5 spreading lobes. Fertile stamens 2. Fruit club-shaped. Seeds up to 4, hairy, slimy when wet. Worldwide: 30 species from tropical Asia Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
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| Species | Content |
| laxiflorum A. Gray | |
| pulchellum Andrews |
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