8136.140 Agathisanthemum Klotzsch

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves subsessile; stipule a sheath bearing 3-15 fimbriae. Flowers often heterostylous, borne in cymes or corymbs or subspherical heads. Calyx with 4 ovate-triangular lobes. Corolla tubular, 4-lobed, often with additional filament-like lobes between. Ovary 2(-3)-locular; ovules numerous in each loculus. Fruit a subspherical capsule, with a conical beak which opens both loculicidally and septicidally.

Worldwide: Probably only 3 species, confined to tropical Africa and the Comoro Is.

Caprivi: 1 cultivated taxon.

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Species	Content
globosum (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Bremek.	Description, Image

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