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Annual or short-lived perennial herbs, often branched. Leaves entire, linear to elliptic, flat or undulate. Inflorescence densely racemose, pedicels bracteate at the base. Calyx 5- partite. Petals 5, white, deciduous, inserted at the base of the disc. Ovary stipitate on the disc, of 5–6 whorled carpels. Follicles open. Seeds few. Worldwide: 3 species in North- and tropical Africa. Caprivi: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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| abyssinica (Fresen.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. |
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