Perennials or subshrubs, [annuals]. Stems procumbent, prostrate, suberect, or trailing, hairy or glabrous. Leaves sessile or petiolate; blade oblong-ovate, orbiculate, or ovate, 10–30 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy. Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes cymose. Flowers: sepals lanceolate, lance-ovate, oblong-ovate, or ovate, [elliptic to orbiculate], 9–28 mm, equal or unequal; corolla blue or blue-purple with white center and tube [pink, red, yellow, or white], funnelform [campanulate], 35–85 mm, limb 5-lobed [subentire or entire]; styles 2, connate from base to 1/2–3/4 length [distinct]; stigmas globose. Fruits capsular, conic to globose, dehiscence valvate [indehiscent]. Seeds 1–4(–6), globose to ovoid, glabrous or glabrate [villous or ciliate].

Distribution

sc, se United States, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands (Hawaii).

Discussion

Species 30–45 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Bonamia grandiflora, Bonamia ovalifolia

Key

1	Leaf blades ovate, 20–25 mm wide, surfaces glabrous or puberulent, glabrescent; sepals 15–28 mm; corollas 70–85 mm.	Bonamia grandiflora
1	Leaf blades oblong-ovate, orbiculate, or ovate, 10–20 mm wide, surfaces velutinous; sepals 9–14 mm; corollas 35–50 mm.	Bonamia ovalifolia