Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Habit unknown.
Stems:
Stems apparently 4–angled, tomentose.
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Opposite.
Blades broadly ovate.
Apex acute.
Base truncate or cordate.
Surfaces gray tomentose.
Margins crenate.
Petioles elongate, ⅓–½ as long as blade.
Stipules absent.
Flowers:
Flowers 2 or more per verticillaster, pedicels ¼–⅓ as long as calyx.
Calyx radially symmetrical, narrowly campanulate, enlarging in fruit, the teeth lanceolate, 5 times as long as wide at base, splitting longitudinally, usually persistent or sometimes only ventral 1/2 persistent.
Corolla color unknown but apparently pale, slightly falcate, upper lip ¼ as long as corolla, lower lip much shorter; stamens exserted well beyond upper corolla lip.
Stamens 4, both pairs of similar length or upper pair slightly longer, included within corolla or well–exserted beyond upper lip; filaments inserted near throat, pubescent; anthers dithecal; anther sacs divaricate, opening by longitudinal slits.
Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, each carpel longitudinally divided, placentation basal-axile; ovules 1 per ovary lobe; style 1, exserted, arising between lobes, usually cleft, diverging after anther dehiscence, shortly 2-lobed, the lobes subulate; stigmas 2.
Fruit:
Fruit unknown.
Ploidy:
Habitat:
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