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(Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
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Genus
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Sanchezia Ruiz & Pavon
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Peruv. Chil. Prodr. 5, pl. 32. 1794.
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Note
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TYPE: Not designated.
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Description
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Erect herbs or shrubs, mostly glabrous. Leaves with numerous cystoliths on both the surfaces, glabrous. Flowers solitary or fascicled, usually large and showy, yellow, orange or red, fascicled flowers subtended by bracts which are often large, partly connate and showy; calyx 5-merous; corolla tube cylindric, 5-merous with equal lobes; stamens 2, usually exserted, the anthers 2-celled, mucronulate at the base, puberulous, the staminodes 2. Capsule oblong, 6-8 seeded; seeds orbicular.
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Habit
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herbs or shrubs
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Note
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About 30 species, all native to tropical America and mainly confined to wet forest of the northern Andes comprise this genus. Since they are attractive, they have been widely planted and many have escaped from cultivation.
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