Anisosepalum E. Hossain

Description of the genus

Perennial or shrubby herbs. Leaves simple, opposite or in whorls with scattered orange glands beneath. Flowers one per bract, alternate, in terminal cymes; bracts fused to the pedicel. Calyx deeply divided into five unequal sepals. Corolla 2-lipped with linear tube. Ovary 2-locular. Seed black, ovoid, flattened.

Worldwide: 3 species in tropical central Africa

DRC: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
alboviolaceum (Benoist) E.Hossain
humbertii (Mildbr.) E.Hossain subsp. humbertii		Image

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