Stephanophysum
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Stephanophysum (Greek, crown and bladder, in reference to the shape of the crown). Acanthaceae. Herbs with more or less dentate or entire lvs., the fls. in lateral umbellate cymes: fls. red; calyx 5-parted; corolla-tube short, the lobes erect or more or less spreading; stamens 4, didynamous: caps. contracted from the base to the middle. Trop. Amer. with the exception of the below-mentioned. The genus is now included in Ruellia. S. Baikiei, Hook. Subshrub, 2-3 ft. high, branches 4-angled, opposite: lvs. opposite, about 6 in. long including the petiole, ovate-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, attenuate at base: panicle terminal, many-fld.: fls. opposite, sessile, scarlet; calyx-segms. narrow, erect, linear-subulate; corolla more than 2 in. long, tubular-funnelform, curved, the lobes triangular; ovary sunk in a large, fleshy, cup-shaped disk. Trop. Afr. B.M. 5111. H.F. II. 3:162.—This species is apparently not known today and has not been recently treated in works on Trop. Afr. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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