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Perennial herbs or shrubs, usually densely stellate-tomentose. Stipules linear, Leaves crenate-serrate or entire. Flowers yellow. Sepals 5, free almost to base. Bracts of the epicalyx 3, persistent. Stamens 5, alternating with 5 conspicuous staminodes. Ovary sessile, 5-locular. Stigmas 5, linear. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Worldwide: 60 species in the tropical Old World Botswana: 7 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
acuminata Mast. var. acuminata | N,SE | Description, Image |
acuminata Mast. var. agnosta (K. Schum.) Wild | SE | Description, Image |
burchellii DC. | SW,SE | Description |
forbesii Planch. ex Mast. | N | Description, Image |
prostrata DC. | SE | Description, Image |
rehmannii Szyszyl. | N,SE | Description, Image |
virescens (K. Schum.) K. Schum. | N,SW |
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