FIGURE 17. Mendoncia lindaviana. A in Systematics of Mendoncia (Acanthaceae: Thunbergioideae) in the Paleotropics

FIGURE 17. Mendoncia lindaviana. A. Older, woody shoot bearing dichasia with flowers and fruits at nodes. B. Flower. C. Dichasium with flower in background (showing relationship between style/stigma and anthers) and dichasium with corolla dehisced in foreground (showing 2-lobed stigma). D. Node of woody shoot showing dichasia borne on peg-like stubs and bearing young fruits. (A, C, photos by Xander van der Burgt of M'Boungou et al. MR 421 from Congo-Brazzaville, used with permission; B, photo by Benedict John Pollard from Congo-Brazzaville, used with permission; D, photo and copyright by Ehoarn Bidault of Bidault 900bis from Gabon, on Tropicos [www.tropicos.org/Image/100228305], CC by-NC-ND 3.0).