Bacopa

• Authority

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

• Family

  Scrophulariaceae

• Scientific Name

  Bacopa Aubl.

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Prostrate or erect herbs. Leaves opposite or whorled, often fleshy. Flowers zygomorphic, 5-merous, bisexual, solitary in leaf axils; pedicels usually with 2 bracts; calyx of unequal sepals; corolla tubular or bell-shaped, the lobes spreading; stamens 4, didynamous, included, the anthers bilocular; ovary of 2 locules, the placentation axile, the style entire, the stigma 2-lobed or united and capitate. Fruit a many-seeded, globose, septicidal capsule; seeds minute, nearly oblong, longitudinally reticulate.