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(Last Modified On 7/25/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/25/2013)
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Genus
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Asystasia Blumne
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bijdr. 796. 1826.
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Note
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TYPE: A. intrusa (Forsk.) Blume.
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Description
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Herbs or shrubs. Leaves with abundant cystoliths above when mature, entire, petiolate. Inflorescences of secund spikes or racemes, these loose or compact, simple or branched. Flowers solitary on short pedicels, subtended by 2 small bracts and 2 bractlets of about equal size; calyx 5-merous, the segments linear or lanceolate; corolla white, blue, purple, rose or yellow, the tube short to funnel- form, the lobes subequal; stamens 4, didynamous, the anthers oblong with 2 parallel cells, sometimes spurred at the base; ovary 4-ovulate, pubescent; the stigma minutely 2-parted or subcapitate. Capsule elliptic, 2-4-seeded; seeds compressed, orbicular or irregularly angled, glabrous.
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Habit
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Herbs or shrubs
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Note
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This genus is not native to the neotropics. According to Leonard (1951) about 70 species have been described, mostly from tropical Africa, Asia, and the East Indies.
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Distribution
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tropical Africa, Asia, and the East Indies.
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