Lepistemonopsis
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Lepistemonopsis Dammer in P.O.A. C: 331 (1895)
Tribe:
Ipomoeeae
Type Species:
L. volkensii Dammer
Habit:
Twining plant.
Flowers:
Flowers in pedunculate cymes. Sepals 5, a little unequal, ovate, acute. Corolla campanulate, open, 5-lobed. Stamens 5; filaments short, filiform, springing from the base of glabrous fleshy scales; pollen spinose. Ovary 2-locular, 4-ovuled; style simple; stigma bicapitate.
Pollen:
Pollen spinose
Fruits:
Caspule indehiscent (or tardily dehiscent)
Seeds:
Seeds granular
Distribution:
Africa. map
Number of Species:
1
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