7951.000 Strobilanthes Blume

PERILEPTA Bremek.

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Description of the genus

Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves opposite, sometimes markedly different, entire or toothed. Flowers solitary in axils or borne in spikes or panicles. Calyx deeply divided into narrow segments. Corolla narrow below, broader above, with a 5-lobed limb, the lobes sometimes unequal but the corolla not 2-lipped. Fertile stamens 4 or sometimes 2 with 2 staminodes. Bracts small and inconspicuous. Ovules 2 per loculus. Capsule oblong or linear.

Derivation of name: From the Greek: cone-flower, referring to the inflorescence of some species.

Comment: Cultivated for the flowers or for the ornamental foliage.

Worldwide: 250 species in tropical Asia

Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
anisophylla (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Anderson
auriculata Nees var. dyeriana (Mast.) J.R.I. Wood
gossypina T. Anderson	Image
hamiltoniana (Steud.) Bosser & Heine	Image

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Strobilanthes
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Strobilanthes
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