Epirixanthes Blume

Herbs, annuals, erect, saprophytic, yellow, brown or violet. Leaves absent or minute, scale-like, appressed, spirally arranged, ovate or oblong-ovate. Flowers minute in terminal dense spikes, bracteate and minutely bracteolate. Sepals 5, persistent, free or connate, subequal. Petals 3, connate for about halfway or less, adnate to staminal sheath in lower half; the lowermost one (keel) broader than others, strongly vaulted without a crest; lateral ones somewhat longer and less vaulted. Stamens 2 - 4 or 5, monadelphous; tube adnate to corolla-tube; anthers opening by terminal pore. Ovary 2-loculed; locules 1-ovuled; style short or filiform, straight or slightly curved. Fruit enclosed by accrescent calyx, slightly compressed, inermous, indehiscent; ripe pericarp pellucid. Seeds black, glabrous, without a caruncle.

India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia; 3 species, 1 in India.

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