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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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Genus
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Arcytophyllum Willd. ex. Schultes
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PlaceOfPublication
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Syst. Veg. 3: 5. 1827.
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Note
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TYPE: A. blaerioides Willd. ex. J. S. & J. H. Schultes.
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Synonym
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Mallostoma Karst., Fl. Colomb. 2: 9. 1862. TYPE not indicated. Rachicallis DC., Prodr. 4: 433. 1833. TYPE: R. rupestris (Sw.) A. P. DeCandolle, based on Hedyotis rupestris Sw. Pseudorhachicallis Benth. & Hook., Gen. PI. 2: 60. 1873. TYPE not indicated. Ereicoctis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 281. 1891. TYPE not indicated.
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Distribution
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Shrubs or subshrubs, erect or prostrate. Leaves small, crowded, often densely imbricate, coriaceous; stipules entire, bifid or setose. Inflorescences cymose or flowers solitary, axillary. Flowers with the hypanthium globose or turbinate, the calyx 4-5 lobed, often with glands between the lobes; corolla funnelshaped or salverform, the lobes 4; stamens with the anthers included or exserted, dorsifixed, the filaments short and adnate to the tube in riblike fashion; style slender, the stigmas 2, short, the ovary 2-celled, the placentas adnate to the septum. Fruits capsular, turbinate to globose, 2-celled, usually septicidally dehiscent to the base; seeds few, boatshaped or plano convex, oblong, punctate, winged.
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Habit
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Shrubs or subshrubs
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Distribution
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Arcytophyllum, a genus of about 30 species, ranges from Mexico through Central America, extending to the Andes of South America.
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