• Source: Phyllis (plant)

      • Phyllis is a genus of plants in the Rubiaceae. There are two known species, both native to islands in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean.


      Description


      Glabrous evergreen sub-shrubs. Stems rounded, smooth. Leaves in whorls of 3, with small linear stipules in between, or with petiole indistinct. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal compound panicle-like dichasia, each many-flowered and bracteates. Calyx absent. Corolla (4-)5 lobed, the lobes spreading to strongly recurved, white to green. Fruit dry, of 2 mericarps, glabrous except on inner faces.


      Species


      Phyllis nobla L. - Madeira, Canary Islands
      Phyllis viscosa Webb ex Christ - Canary Islands


      References




      External links



      Flora Vascular de las Canarias, Phyllis nobla
      Madeira Flora
      Czech Botany, Phyllis nobla

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