Sinningia Nees

Terrestrial pubescent herbs or shrubs, perennial from woody tubers, or from rhizomes; stems erect or decumbent, often unbranched. Leaves opposite, in whorls, or congested on short stems from the tuber, nearly equal in a pair or whorl, oblong, lanceolate, or orbicular; petioles of various length or lacking. Inflorescences axillary with one or more flowers in umbels or cymes or appearing terminal in racemes; peduncles and pedicels short or long, bracteate; floral tube short; calyx tube campanulate, the lobes 5, triangular; corolla usually red or orange, the tube campanulate to cylindric, erect, gibbous at the base, often ventri-cose above, limb 5-lobed, nearly regular, but more often bilabiate; stamens 4, in 2 pairs, the filaments adnate to the base of the corolla tube, the anthers coherent, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; disc of 1-5 glands, sometimes with 2 larger and connate; ovary half-inferior to superior; style slender, the stigma stomatomorphic. Fruit an ovoid capsule dehiscing by 2 or 4 valves; seeds small, numerous, fusiform, shiny, striate.

Can be grown by seedlings or tubers.