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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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Genus
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Nertera Banks & Soland. ex Gaertn.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fruct. Sem. P1. 1: 124. 1788, nom. cons.
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Note
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TYPE: N. depressa Gaertn. = N. granadensis (L.f.) Druce.
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Synonym
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Gomozia Mutis ex L.f., Suppl. P1. 17, 129. 1781, nom. rejic. TYPE: G. granadensis L.f. Gomosia Lam., Encycl. Meth. Bot. 2: 769. 1788, Gomozia Mutis, ex L.f. orth. mut. Gomoza Cothen., Disp. Veg. Meth. 5. 1790, Gomozia Mutis, ex L.f. orth. mut.
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Description
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Creeping, perennial herbs, often forming mats. Leaves small, often subsessile; stipules minute, adnate to the petioles, the sheath entire or with 2 teeth. Flowers
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Habit
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herbs
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Description
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minute, axillary, sessile, usually perfect; calyx truncate or tubular, the teeth 4- 5; corolla tubular or funnel shaped, glabrous within, the lobes 4, valvate; stamens 4, attached basally to the corolla, the anthers apiculate, exserted; ovary 2-celled, the style long exserted, hairy, the ovules solitary, erect from the base of the cell. Fruits rotund, succulent, red, with 2 cartilaginous nutlets.
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Distribution
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distributed in Mexico through Central America, South America, and the West Indies. It also occurs in Australia, New Zealand, and the East Indies, as well as in Hawaii.
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