Cyrtandra

• Authority

  Gillett, George W. 1967. The genus Cyrtandra in Fiji. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 37: 107-159.

• Family

  Gesneriaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cyrtandra

• Description

  
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  Latin Diagnosis - Herbs, vines, shrubs, or small trees, the stems round to sharply quadrangular, the trichomes septate, uniseriate, capitate or noncapitate hairs; leaves whorled, opposite or pseudoalternate by the reduction of one member of the pair, petiolate to sessile to connateperfoliate, the blades simple; inflorescence a congested or elongate cyme, sessile or pedunculate, axillary on young branches or caulifiorous on older stems, sometimes arising among adventitious roots, usually bracteate, the outer bracts persistent or deciduous, foliaceous to corolloid and soft-textured, minute to as long as, or longer than, the inflorescence, free or connate and cyathiferous, the inner bracts like the outer but smaller; flowers perfect, often protandrous, sometimes unisexual, the calyx foliaceous or corolloid, persistent or deciduous, spathaceous to variously cleft from summit nearly to base into 2 to 5 equal or unequal, valvate lobes; corolla fleshy to chartaceous, usually white, but also green, yellow, orange, red, pink, or lavender, 1-6 cm. long, cleft to half its length into rounded, equal to unequal, spreading to erect lobes, these imbricate in bud, the limb often bilabiate, the lower or anterior lobe usually equal to or larger than the others; stamens 2, the filaments adnate to the tube opposite the sinuses of the anterior corolla lobe, the lower portion of each filament variously twisted, the anthers coherent at apices; staminodes 2 or 3, 0.5-5 mm. long, adnate to the corolla tube opposite the posterior sinuses, sometimes bearing small, vestigial anthers; base of the ovary clasped by a nectiferous, annular, cupulate, or one-sided disc, this often persistent in mature fruit, the ovary and style glabrous or variously pubescent, the stigma capitate to applanate and bilobed, the plane of the expanded lobes perpendicular, oblique, or parallel to the axis of the style; fruit white, green, yellow, orange, red, or pink, a succulent to coriaceous berry, ovoid to oblong, up to 4 cm. long, or cylindrical and up to 12.5 cm. long, often beaked by the persistent style base; seeds many, usually less than 1 mm. long, usually embedded in the fleshy placentae.