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<<<Calyx>Corolla>Limbs>Lobe number

5-lobed1
1. 005-002-003-001

<<<Calyx>Ovary>Stigma>Lobe number

2-lobed2
2. 005-006-001-001

<<Calyx>Corolla>Colour

white, yellow, purple to red, often with markings3
3. 005-002-001

<<Calyx>Corolla>Limbs

limb ;4
4. 005-002-003

<<Calyx>Corolla>Shape

usually funnelform and broader towards mouth5
5. 005-002-002

<<Calyx>Ovary>Stigma

stigma stomatomorphic or .6
6. 005-006-001

<<Calyx>Stamens>Anthers

anthers at first coherent by sides and faces, later separating, dehiscing by short basal slits,7
7. 005-003-002

<<Calyx>Stamens>Filaments

filaments basally connate,8
8. 005-003-001

<<Calyx>Stamens>Thecae

thecae divergent at base;9
9. 005-003-003

<Calyx>Corolla

corolla , ,10
10. 005-002

<Calyx>Disk

disc a single dorsal gland;11
11. 005-005

<Calyx>Lobe number

512
12. 005-001

<Calyx>Ovary

ovary superior,13
13. 005-006

<Calyx>Stamens

stamens included,14
14. 005-003

<Calyx>Staminodes

staminode small to minute;15
15. 005-004

<Flowers>Bracteoles

bracteoles often caducous, sometimes absent;16
16. 004-005

<Flowers>Flower number

solitary17
17. 004-002

<Flowers>Flower number per inflorescence

several-flowered18
18. 004-003

<Flowers>Pedicels

pedicellate.19
19. 004-006

<Flowers>Peduncle

pedunculate or epedunculate;20
20. 004-004

<Flowers>Position

axillary21
21. 004-001

<Fruits>Colour

interior red, orange, or purple22
22. 006-002

<Fruits>Growth form

spreading23
23. 006-004

<Fruits>Texture

fleshy capsule, becoming coriaceous24
24. 006-001

<Fruits>Valve number

225
25. 006-003

<Habit>Growth form

creeping or climbing, sometimes erect26
26. 001-001

Calyx

Calyx lobes , free or briefly connate at base;27
27. 005

Cytology

Chromosome number n=9 (Skog 1984).

Description

Terrestrial or epiphytic, caulescent, creeping or climbing, sometimes erect herbs, shrubs, or lianas, without modified stems. Stems branched or unbranched. Leaves opposite, equal or nearly equal in a pair, venation pinnate, foliar nectaries absent. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in fasciculate several-flowered inflorescences; pedunculate or epedunculate; bracteoles often caducous, sometimes absent; pedicellate. Calyx lobes 5, free or briefly connate at base; corolla white, yellow, purple to red, often with markings, usually funnelform and broader towards mouth, limb 5-lobed; stamens included, filaments basally connate, anthers at first coherent by sides and faces, later separating, dehiscing by short basal slits, thecae divergent at base; staminode small to minute; disc a single dorsal gland; ovary superior, stigma stomatomorphic or 2-lobed. Fruit a fleshy capsule, becoming coriaceous, interior red, orange, or purple, loculicidally dehiscent, 2 valves recurving and spreading widely.

Distribution

Guianas present, Lesser Antilles present, Southern America: Colombia (Colombia present); Ecuador (Ecuador present), continental Neotropics present
More than 200 species throughout the continental Neotropics and the Lesser Antilles, from a probable center of distribution in Colombia and Ecuador; 4 species in the Guianas.

Flowers

Flowers , , or in fasciculate inflorescences;28
28. 004

Fruits

Fruit a , , loculicidally dehiscent, valves recurving and widely.29
29. 006

Habit

Terrestrial or epiphytic, caulescent, herbs, shrubs, or lianas, without modified stems.30
30. 001

Leaves

Leaves opposite, equal or nearly equal in a pair, venation pinnate, foliar nectaries absent.31
31. 003

Stems

Stems branched or unbranched.32
32. 002