Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Suffrutices. Leaves palmately-nerved, entire to 3-5-palmately lobed, with a conspicuous gland at the base of the central vein. Flowers axillary, solitary or fasciculate. Epicalyx bracts 5, connate at the base and adnate to the calyx. Calyx cup-shaped, deeply 5-fid. Petals pink or mauve. Style-branches twice the number of carpels.
Fruit composed of 5 indehiscent mericarps, bearing glochidiate spines on the back.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Urena Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=940
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings