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2. Calystegia R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holt. 483. 1810. Choisy in DC., Prodr. 9:433.1845, Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:217.1883, Brummitt in Kew Bull. 29:499.1974.
[nom. cons.]
DANIEL F. AUSTIN
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Prostrate, sprawling to twining herbs, perennial. Leaves often sagittate or hastate with rounded, angular or lobed bases, mostly glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary or few-flowered cymes. Bracts 2, large, ovate to elliptic, enveloping the calyx, persistent. Sepals 5, subequal, ovate to oblong, herbaceous. Corolla white or pink, campanulate or infundibuliform. Stamens 5, epipetalous. Ovary 1-celled with 4 ovules, style 1, stigmas 2, oblong or elliptic, complanate. Fruit capsular, ovoid to globose. Seeds smooth or verrucose, black.
A genus of c. 25 species in the temperate and the tropical regions of both the hemispheres. 1 species has been reported from Pakistan.
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