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Senra Cay., Diss. 2. t. 35. f. 3. 83, 104. 1786. Mast, in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 333. 1874; Hutch., Gen. Fl. Pl. 2: 544. 1967.
Dumreichera Hochst. & Steud.
An undershrub, covered by soft hairs. Leaves deeply cordate, rounded, orbicular or slightly 3-lobed. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate; bracts 3, large, free, cordate, in fruit membranous. Sepals 5, connate. Corolla violet with dark purple centre. Staminal tube 5-toothed above, filaments numerous below the apex. Carpels 5; ovary 5-loculed, each locule 2-ovuled; style branches 5 with capitate stigma. Fruit 5-valved, loculicidally dehiscent capsule. Seed 1 in each locule, hairy.
Three species, distributed in East Africa, Arabia and Pakistan. Only I species is known from our area.
Lower Taxon
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