Blechum

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Acanthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Blechum

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Perennial herbs. Leaves short-petiolate; blade with numerous minute cystoliths. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, quadrangular spikes or racemes, with large, foliaceous, overlapping bracts covering most of the flower; calyx with 5 equal or unequal, awl-shaped sepals; corolla actinomorphic, funnel-shaped, white or purplish; stamens 4, of equal length; style filiform, the stigma simple. Capsule wide ellipsoid or nearly globose; seeds rounded and flattened.