Sibthorpia L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 252

24. Sibthorpia L. 1

Perennial herbs; stems procumbent, rooting at the nodes. Leaves alternate, petiolate, more or less orbicular. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, 4- to 8-merous. Corolla rotate, with short tube and entire, subequal lobes. Stamens equal in number to, or 1 or 2 less than the corolla-lobes. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds oblong-ovoid, reticulate or smooth.

Literature: O. Hedberg, Bot. Not. 108: 161-183 (1955).

1 Pedicel more than 35 mm; flowers usually several in each leaf-axil; corolla at least 9 mm in diameter 3. peregrina

1 Pedicel not more than 35. mm; flowers solitary in leaf-axils; corolla not more than 7 mm in diameter

2 Pedicelshorterthan subtending petiole;corollalessthan 3 mm in diameter, white, cream or pinkish 1. europaea

2 Pedicelusuallylongerthansubtendingpetiole;corollamore than 3 mm in diameter, yellow 2. africana