Diclis

Annual herbs (in ours), creeping, prostrate or decumbent. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicellate. Bracts 0. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped; tube short, produced at front into a spur; posterior lip 2-lobed, anterior lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther-thecae confluent. Capsule subspherical, loculicidal.

Diclis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Scrophulariaceae.

Its native range is Tropical Africa, Western Indian Ocean.

Species:

Diclis bambuseti R.E.Fr. Diclis ovata Benth. Diclis petiolaris Benth. Diclis reptans Benth. Diclis rotundifolia (Hiern) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt Diclis sessilifolia Diels Diclis stellarioides Hiern Diclis tenella Hemsl. Diclis tenuissima Pilg.