Sanchezia Ruiz & Pav.

Sanchezia (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Acanthaceae

Characteristics

Erect herbs or shrubs, mostly glabrous. Leaves with numerous cystoliths on both the surfaces, glabrous. Flowers solitary or fascicled, usually large and showy, yellow, orange or red, fascicled flowers subtended by bracts which are often large, partly connate and showy; calyx 5-merous; corolla tube cylindric, 5-merous with equal lobes; stamens 2, usually exserted, the anthers 2-celled, mucronulate at the base, puberulous, the staminodes 2. Capsule oblong, 6-8 seeded; seeds orbicular.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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