Description
Erect, glabrous herbs.
Leaves cauline, with tubular, ensheathing bases;
Flowers solitary, in a few-flowered cluster or in a raceme terminating the stem.
Ovary superior, sessile, ovoid, oblong or obovoid, 3-celled;
Capsule globose, cylindrical or ellipsoid, loculicidal.
Seeds globose or angular;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Australasia, Madagascar present, New Zealand present, SE. Asia present, Southern and tropical Africa present
Southern and tropical Africa (5 spp.), Madagascar (2 spp.), SE. Asia (4 spp.), of which one species extends through Malesia to Australia, and New Zealand.
Citation
Obermeyer 1961 – In: Kirkia: 84
H. Perrier 1938 – In: Fl. Madag.: 136
Baker 1880 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 450
Hutch. 1959 – In: Fam. Fl. Pl., ed. 2: 612
Krause 1930 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 15a: 272