Kallstroemia Scopoli

Herbs, prostrate to ascending, diffuse; branches herbaceous to suffrutescent, densely pubescent to glabrate. Leaves opposite, paripinnate, one of each pair alternatively smaller or sometimes abortive; leaflets (4-) 6 - 10( -12), opposite, subsessile, elliptic to obovate; terminal pair directed forward, falcate. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicellate. Sepals 5, free, usually persistent. Petals 5. Stamens 10, rarely 12; filaments filiform, anthers globose to ovoid; extrastaminal glands truncate. Ovary ovoid or pyramidal, glabrous to pubescent, 10 - 12-lobed and loculed, each locule with one ovule; style simple, cylindric to conical, persistent; stigma capitate or 10 - 12-lobed, papillose. Schizocarps separating into 10 - 12, triangular, wedge-shaped, tuberculate mericarps from a persistent styliferous axis; seeds oblong-ovoid; endosperm absent.

Distrib. About 17 species, distributed in New World. Introduced (one species) into India and W. Africa.

List of Lower Taxa