Bowkeria

Bowkeria verticillata

The Bowkeria is a genus of plants, which is attributed to the family of Stilbaceae. It comprises five species that occur in South Africa.

Description

Bowkeria are much branched shrubs or small trees that are feindrüsig hairy to tomentose. The stems grow upright and are rounded. The leathery leaves are usually constantly stalk threes, they can be sessile or pedunculated. The shape is lanceolate, elliptic or ovate, forward they are pointed. The leaf margin is almost entire to notched or serrated.

The flowers are distinctly stalked. The calyx is bell-shaped and filled with five nearly equal calyx lobes, the achszugewandte tip is at its widest. The crown is colored white or yellow, the coronary band is divided into two lips. The corolla tube is short cylindrical at the base, about wide bell-shaped. The four stamens are not beyond the crown, occasionally stamens are stunted to staminodes. The ovary is cylindrical or conical and consists of two or three compartments. The scar is club-shaped.

System

Within the genus five species can be distinguished. The Bowkeria were assigned earlier the tribe Bowkerieae the family of the figwort family ( Scrophulariaceae ), the genus but is held according to findings in the family Stilbaceae.

Occurrence

The species of the genus occur in South Africa, often they are also cultivated.