Family: Campanulaceae
Monopsis
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:
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About 17 species from South Africa to tropical Africa.
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Biology:
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Author:
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