Description
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Subshrubby herbs, shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, usually glabrous. Stipules sometimes united into a sheath. Flowers 4-5-merous, heterostylous, in branched terminal panicles. Calyx tube ribbed; lobes triangular or linear. Buds and corolla lobes often with longitudinal narrow wing-like keels. Corolla white, pink or purple; tube cylindric.
Ovary 2-locular; ovule solitary in each loculus, erect from the base.
Fruits succulent, with 2 pyrenes; pyrenes opening by 1 dorsal slit.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Chassalia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1415
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Chassalia: Brief Summary
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Chassalia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found from tropical Africa to (sub)tropical Asia.
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