Citation: L., Opera Varia 232 (1758).

Derivation: Greek anakampto, I restore; eros, love; apparently a plant with the power to restore love.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Procumbent perennial herbs with tuberous roots.

Flowering stems ascending, leafy towards the base, to 20 cm long; leaves opposite to alternate, often imbricate, sessile, succulent, entire, acute, glabrous; with fascicles of hairs in the leaf axils; inflorescence a few-flowered cyme; bracts opposite, scarious in the upper part, herbaceous to fleshy towards the base; sepals deciduous; petals 5, free; stamens 8-10; ovary superior, ovoid to globose, ovules numerous; stigmas 3, on a style of about the same length as the stigmatic arms.

Capsule 3-valved, light- to red-brown, the epicarp caducous, the endocarp membranous and persistent, the endocarp valves surrounded by and alternate with hardened white bristle-like remains of the mesocarp; seeds numerous.

Distribution:  About 70 species in Africa, 1 endemic in Australia.

Biology: No text

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