Citation: Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 2:37 ( 1817).

Derivation: Greek monos, one; opsis, face.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herbs with tap roots; leaves alternate, sessile, exstipulate, with subdistant serrations particularly towards the apex, rarely almost entire.

Flowers borne raceme-like singly in the axils of the leaf-like bracts towards the apex of the branches; the pedicel usually several times the length of the flowers and elongating as well as bent up below the fruit; calyx with a short tube, persistent; corolla with tube split above, 2-lipped with the upper lip consisting of 2 smaller lobes and the lower one of 3 lobes; stamens fused into a column around the style; anthers consisting of 3 slightly longer upper ones with short hairs at their apex and 2 shorter lower ones with longer and dense apical tufts of hairs; ovary inferior, 2-celled, the style surmounted by 2 lanceolate stigma-branches eventually protruding above the anther-column.

fruit a capsule dehiscing mainly loculicidally.

Distribution:  About 17 species from South Africa to tropical Africa.

Biology: No text

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