8007.000 Asystasia Blume

Description of the genus

Herbs or shrubs. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, thyrses, cymes or solitary. Calyx actinomorphic, 5-lobed. Corolla ± actinomorphic or 2-lipped; campnulate above; rugula on upper lip indistinct; lobes 5. Fertile stamens 4, didynamous; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary with 2 ovules. Seeds without hygroscopic hairs.

Worldwide: c. 70 species in the Old World tropics

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
sp. (Biegel 5184)

Other sources of information about Asystasia:

Flora of Zimbabwe: native/naturalised Asystasia page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Asystasia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Asystasia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Asystasia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Asystasia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Asystasia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Asystasia.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1345, retrieved 23 May 2013

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