Alloplectus Mart.

Shrubs or coarse herbs, terrestrial or epiphytic; roots fibrous; stems erect or clambering, quadrangular. Leaves opposite, usually equal in a pair, often long petiolate, elliptic to ovate or oblanceolate, entire to serrate. Flowers 1 to few in fascicles, axillary, bracteate, the peduncles not evident; calyx usually colored or green, the 5 lobes nearly free, often broad, entire to strongly serrate, pubescent to pilose; corolla tubular, yellow or red, oblique in the calyx, constricted or not in the throat, or laterally compressed, gibbous at the base with a spur, often ventricose below the mouth, the 5 lobes of the limb usually small; stamens 4, not exserted, the filaments adnate to the base of the corolla tube, the anthers often transversely oblong, coherent or becoming free, dihiscing by longitudinal slits; disc gland large, sometimes 2-lobed; ovary superior, the apex pilose, the style included. Fruit a fleshy bivalved capsule surrounded by the persistent calyx; seeds numerous, striate.

Use: Plants of Alloplectus are rarely cultivated and have no known other economic uses.