5651.000 Antherotoma
Fernandes, R. & A. (1978) Melastomataceae Flora Zambesiaca 4
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs with slender indistinctly 4-gonous stem. Leaves opposite. Flowers 4-merous. Receptacle broadly campanulate. Sepals long-persistent; intersepalar segments present. Petals obovate. Stamens 8, equal, straight, yellow; pedoconnective somewhat long with anterior bilobed appendage at the base; anthers obovate-oblong, dehiscing at the truncate apex by a large pore. Ovary 4-locular, the lower half adnate to the receptacle; style filiform; stigma punctiform. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds cochleate. Worldwide: 12 species in Tropical and South Africa and Madagascar. Zimbabwe: 4 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| debilis (Sond.) Jacq.-Fél. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| naudinii Hook. f. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| phaeotricha (Hochst.) Jacq.-Fél. | E | Description, Image |
| senegambiensis (Guill. & Perr.) Jacq.-Fél. | E | Description, Image |
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