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11. Porana Burm. f., Fl. Ind. 51. t. 21. f. 1. 1768. Choisy in DC., Prodr. 9:436.1845, Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:221.1883, van Ooststroom in van Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. 1, 4:402.1953.
DANIEL F. AUSTIN
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Large woody or herbaceous twiners. Leaves petiolate, ovate, mostly cordate at the base and palmately nerved, entire, herbaceous. Flowers in racemose or paniculate cl usters, rarely solitary. Bracts leaf-l ike, or minute or subulate. Sepals 5, small in flower, the 3 outer or all accrescent in fruit, scarious, reticulately veined, spreading, often spathulate, falling with the fruit. Corolla regular, white, campanulate or funnel-shaped, rarely salverform, the limb entire or 5-lobed. Style 1, simple or bifid with unequal branches, stigmas globose, solitary or 1 on each branch. Fruit capsular, subglobose to oblong or indehiscent. Seed usually 1, glabrous.
A tropical and subtopical genus of about 20 species in Africa, Asia and Australia. One species is found in Pakistan.
Lower Taxon
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