Description

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Growth Form: Succulent perennial herbs.

Stems: Stems prostrate, scandent, or suberect.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, distichous or spiralled. Blades cordate to oblong–lanceolate. Veins parallel. Sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal or axillary pairs of cymes, sometimes arranged in open panicles, each cyme pair subtended by 2 bracts, these similar to the upper reduced leaves, not folded nor spathe-like. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or bisexual (perfect) and pistillate, radially symmetric. Calyx of 3 sepals; sepals distinct, equal, scarious or slightly herbaceous. Corolla of 3 petals, white, pink, or blue, subequal. Stamens usually 3–6, all similar and fertile, those opposite the petals longer than others or the only ones present when Stamens 3; anthers widely separated by a flattened rectangular connective. Ovary superior, 3-carpellate, 3-celled; ovules 2 per cell; style filiform; stigma brush-like or subcapitate.

Fruit: Loculicidal capsules 3–celled. Seeds [1–]2 per locule.

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