Description

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Growth Form: Small annual herbs.

Stems: Stems erect, usually branched from near the base, glabrous.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite, widely spaced above. Blades somewhat fleshy. Petioles absent. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers solitary in the leaf axils. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx deeply 5–cleft. Corolla purplish to blue, bilabiate, upper lip overlapping lower lip in bud, 2-lobed, lower lip much larger, 3-lobed, the lobes spreading. Stamens 2, with 2 staminodes included in corolla tube. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, with as many cells; ovule placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed.

Fruit: Capsules loculicidal; the valves entire or 2–lobed'. Seeds minute; ovoid.

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