Habit: Perennial herb to shrub.
Stem: erect to prostrate or climbing.
Leaf: cauline, sessile or short-petioled; blade elliptic to oblanceolate or spoon-shaped, base narrowed, margin entire, tip acute to obtuse.
Inflorescence: terminal or axillary spike-like racemes or panicles; pedicels short.
Flower: occasionally heterostylous; calyx with stalked, head-like glands; corolla 5-lobed, salverform; stamens included or exserted; style 1, included or exserted; stigmas 5, linear.
Fruit: capsule, brown, long-beaked.
Species In Genus: 12 species: worldwide, tropics & subtropics.
Etymology: (Latin, a lead-like ore, from historical use as cure for lead poisoning)
Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Elizabeth McClintock
Reference: Smith 2005 FNANM 5:610--611
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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