Perennials. Stems usually twining-climbing or trailing, sometimes decumbent, sparsely hairy, glabrescent, or glabrous. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, 40–80 mm, surfaces glabrous, glabrescent, or tomentose. Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2–3-flowered cymes. Flowers: sepals lanceolate, 12–20 mm, unequal, notably accrescent in fruit, outer 3 notably longer than inner 2; corolla white, campanulate, 25–30 mm, limb 5-toothed or entire; anthers straight after dehiscence; pollen rugate, not echinate; styles 1; stigmas 2, globose. Fruits capsular, ovoid [globose], dehiscence valvate. Seeds (3–)4, ovoid to obovoid, glabrous or hairy around margins [hairy on surfaces]. x = 15.

Distribution

Introduced; Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, introduced also in Eurasia, Africa.

Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Aniseia martinicensis