Diodia

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Rubiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Diodia

• Description

  
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  Description - Erect, decumbent, or scandent herbs. Stems quadrangular. Leaves opposite, entire, sessile or almostsessile; stipules interpetiolar, connate, and united to the petiole. Flowers bisexual, sessile, 4-(6)-merous, actinomorphic, solitary, in axillary spikes or heads. Calyx 2-4(-6)-lobate; corolla infundibuliform or hypocrateriform, with 4(-6) lobes; stamens 4(-6); ovary inferior, of two carpels, each carpel with a single ovule, the style filiform, the stigma bilobate or capitate. Fruit indehiscent or schizocarpous, dry. A genus of approximately 50 species, the majority of tropical America, some species of Africa.