Kickxia Dumort.

Velvote (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herbs, with stems usually trailing or climbing. Lvs mostly alternate, sometimes the lower opposite; lamina broad, partly palmately and partly pinnately veined, often hastate or sagittate. Fls usually axillary and solitary, rarely in axillary or terminal racemes. Calyx with 5 subequal lobes. Corolla with cylindric tube forming a spur at base; limb 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed and with pouch at base closing throat (mouth of tube). Stamens 4, included. Capsule ± globose; loculi equal, each opening by a pore or detachable lip. Seeds numerous, pitted or tuberculate, small; wing 0.
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Cal regular, deeply 5-parted; cor strongly irregular, spurred at base, bilabiate, the lobes much longer than the tube, the throat closed by the well developed palate; stamens 4; stigma capitate; fr subglobose, each cell circumscissile on the side near its summit, nearly half the valve being separated; our spp. pubescent annuals, prostrate but not creeping, with short-petioled, alternate, broadly ovate lvs and small, yellow or purple, long-pediceled fls solitary in the axils. 30, Old World.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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