Dissotis
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Read about Dissotis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Dissotis (of two kinds, referring to the unlike anthers). Melastomaceae. Some 60 or more species of bristly-hairy or villous shrubs, sub-shrubs or herbs of Trop. and S. Afr., some of which may occur sparingly in choice collections of coolhouse and warmhouse plants: lvs. opposite, short-stalked, linear, ovate or orbicular, usually entire. 3-5-nerved, more or less strigose above: fls. bracted, about 1 in. or more across, purple or violet, solitary, or capitate or paniculate at the ends of the branches; calyx 4-5-lobed; petals 4 or 5, obovate; stamens 8 or 10, very unequal, the anthers linear- subulate, usually beaked, with 1 pore, the larger set being joined to the filament by a long connective and the other set with much shorter or nearly obsolete connective: fr. an included coriaceous caps. 4- or 5-valved at the apex. Apparently none is in the American trade. D. Irvingiana, Hook. f. Annual from upper Guinea, 1-3 ft.: lvs. linear-oblong to lance-oolong, acute, 3-nerved: fls. reddish purple, to 1¼ in. across; petals obovate. B.M. 5149. D. incana, Tnana, of Trop. and S. Afr., shrub, 2-3 ft.: lvs. linear to linear-oblong, obtuse: fls. rose-purple, to 1½ in. across. B.M. 3790. D. plumosa, Hook. f. Shrubby, with long and slender shoots which are densely covered with small deep green lvs.: fls. bright magenta-rose, 1½ in. across. Trop. Afr. D. Mahonii, Hook. f. Prostrate, the sts. 6-8 in. long: Ivs. short-stalked, nearly or quite orbicular: fls. rose-purple. 2 in. across, solitary. Uganda. B.M. 7896. D. modesta, Stapf. Slender: lvs. oblong, minutely serrulate: fls. few, crowded at ends of branches; petals obovate-elliptic; stamens blue-purple, reddish and yellow; style purple. Uganda. L.H.B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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