Habit: Annual, perennial herb, < 2 m; sap clear or milky; monoecious.
Stem: erect.
Leaf: alternate, entire or toothed; stipules minute, petioled; blade base generally with 2 glands.
Inflorescence: spike, axillary or terminal; bracts glandular.
Staminate Flower: calyx 2-lobed; stamens 2; nectary disk 0.
Pistillate Flower: sepals 3, overlapping in bud, reduced, or 0; ovary 3-chambered, styles free, fused proximally, lobes 0.
Fruit: generally 3-lobed, separating into 3 1-seeded segments; central axis persistent.
Seed: pointed; scar not appendaged.
Species In Genus: 30 species: tropics, warm temperate.
Etymology: (Benjamin Stillingfleet, British botanist, 1702--1771)
Jepson eFlora Author: Mark H. Mayfield & Grady L. Webster
Reference: Johnston & Warnock 1963 SW Naturalist 8:100--106
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Stillingia
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