Browallia L.

Solanaceae, Jennifer M Edmonds. Oliganthes, Melongena & Monodolichopus, Maria S. Vorontsova & Sandra Knapp. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2012

Morphology General Habit

Annual or perennial herbs

Morphology Leaves

Leaves alternate, stipulate

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers often solitary, or in few-flowered racemose cymes, zygomorphic, axillary; pedicels deciduous at base

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx cylindrical to tubular, rarely campanulate, prominently veined with five calyx lobes

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Corolla salverform, usually zygomorphic, tube narrow but swollen apically towards five broad obtuse recurved lobes, open at mouth, hairs usually short, eglandular or simply glandular, glabrescent internally

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Stamens four, didynamous, usually included, occasionally with fifth anther or staminode; filaments fused to upper part of corolla tube where thickened, unequal, glabrous below, upper pair flattened and curved usually closing the throat of the corolla tube, lower pair geniculate and densely pilose above; anthers usually all fertile, upper pair sometimes reduced to single cells

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary ovoid, glabrous basally, densely pilose above, bilocular; ovules numerous; style filiform below, curved or tortuous and broadened beneath the stigma where corrugated, usually included; stigma broadly dilated, shallowly or deeply bilobed or capitate

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit ovoid capsules, smooth; usually splitting open by four entire valves, enclosed by accrescent persistent chartaceous calyx

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds cuboid to ovoid, minute, foveolate, numerous.

Note

A small genus with 2–3 (or possibly 6) species, native to North to tropical South America, widely cultivated throughout the world for their ornamental value.