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Reinwardtia Dumort., Comm. Bot. 19. 1822. Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 411.1875; T. Cooke, Fl. Bomb. Pres. 1:155.1901; Hutch., Gen. Flow. Pl. 2: 599. 1967.

Branched shrub or sub-shrub: Leaves alternate, entire-serrate, stipules caducous. Flowers yellow, solitary axillary or in sub-racemes, dimorphic with long and short styled flowers. Sepals 5, imbricate, entire. Petals 5, contorted, caducous. Glands 2-3. Stamens 5, alternating with 5 staminodes; filaments connate at the base. Carpels 3-4; styles 3-4. Capsule globose, 6-8-locular; 1 seed in each locule.

A genus of 2 species, found in N. India, W. Pakistan and China. Represented in W. Pakistan by 1 species.

Lower Taxon

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