Perennials or lianas, [shrubs]. Stems twining-climbing, [trailing], glabrous or hairy [glabrescent]. Leaves petiolate [subsessile]; blade cordate to ovate-cordate [oblong to linear], 20–100 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy. Inflorescences 2–16-flowered or flowers solitary. Flowers: sepals oblong [ovate to lanceolate], 7–12 mm, sometimes unequal, accrescent in fruit; corolla proximally purplish, distally ± white with greenish bands, campanulate [funnelform or salverform], 25–40[–80] mm, limb entire or 5-toothed; styles 1; stigmas 2, globose. Fruits capsular or nutlike, dry, oblong-ovoid [ellipsoid, fusiform, turbinate], indehiscent. Seeds 1(or 2), ovoid [ellipsoid, fusiform, or globose], hairy.

Distribution

Introduced; Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands (New Caledonia), introduced also in Atlantic Islands (Tenerife).

Discussion

Species 15 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Turbina corymbosa