2309.000 Kyphocarpa (Fenzl ex Endl.) Lopr.

Description of the genus

Annual, erect herbs. Leaves entire, opposite. Flowers in spike-like, densely pilose, bracteate thyrses, terminal on the stems and branches. Each bract subtends a bibracteolate partial inflorescence of 4 fertile flowers and 4 bracteolate sterile flowers consisting of slender spiny processes; partial inflorescences falling as a unit, bracts persistent on the inflorescence axis. Perianth segments 5, 3-nerved, mucronate. Stamens 5, pseudostaminodes present. Ovary pilose above and with an asymmetrical horn at the apex.

Worldwide: 3-4 species in southern tropical and South Africa

Botswana: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
angustifolia (Moq.) Lopr.	N,SW,SE	Description, Image
cruciata (Schinz) Schinz

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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Kyphocarpa
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