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Genus Artanema Family Linderniaceae

Description: Erect herbs, minutely, sometimes obscurely gland-dotted.

Leaves opposite, simple, 3-veined at the base, sessile.

Inflorescence terminal, an open raceme or spike, subtended by small bracts; bracteoles absent. Sepals 5, fused only at base, acute. Corolla 2-lipped; tube dilated with 4 stout protuberances opposite the stamens, the upper lip large, emarginate, the lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous; lower filaments with a thick spur towards base; anther loculi confluent, divergent, acute. Stigma perpendicular to the style, with 2 broad equal flaps.

Capsule 2-valved, septifragal, leaving a central column with remnants of the septum attached; seeds numerous, ± angled, papillose.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 3 species, tropics, Africa, Asia to Java & Australia. Australia: 1 species (endemic).

Text by W. R. Barker, Distribution and Occurence edited Kerry Gibbons 21 Apr. 2023.
Taxon concept:

One species in NSW: Artanema fimbriatum

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