Sesamoides Ortega

2. Sesamoides Ortega View in CoL 1

Usually perennial, often woody at the base, with simple leaves. Flowers in terminal, bracteate racemes. Calyx 5- to 6-lobed. Petals 5-6, the upper two multilaciniate, the others less divided. Stamens 7-15 on an excentric, urceolate, hypogynous disc. Carpels on a short gynophore, 4-7, more or less free, stellate-patent in fruit, more or less dorsally gibbous making the style lateral or subterminal. ( Astrocarpus DC. )

Calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, more than half as long as the calyx, with narrow sinuses 1. pygmaea

Calyx-lobes broadly triangular, acute, less than half as long as the calyx, with broad sinuses 2. canescens