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HETEROCENTRUM Hook. & Arn.
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.
Erect shrubs or creeping perennial herbs. Leaf blades pinnately, or three-veined. Inflorescence of terminal bracteate cymes, or flowers solitary and terminal. Floral tube cylindric; sepals persistent. Petals 4, white, pink or magenta. Fruit a capsule. Seeds numerous, coiled, warty. Worldwide: About 25 species found only in the mountains of Mexico and Central America. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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