Proboscidea
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Annual or perennial herbs, spreading, viscid. Leaves opposite, petiolate, lamina entire or shallowly lobed, rounded. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, few–many-flowered; calyx 5-lobed, tube split to the base on the lower side, viscid pubescent; corolla cream to red-purple, tubular, expanded into the 5-lobed limb, lobes rounded, unequal; fertile stamens 4; stigma of 2 flattened lobes. Capsule rough (not spiny), crested on the dorsal side and extended at the apex into 2 long horns.
9 species, in the warm tropical Americas; 2 species naturalised in Australia.
Source:
Christensen, T.J. (1999). Pedaliaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 543–546. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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