Cionura Griseb.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 73

7. Cionura Griseb. 1

Glabrous herbs, often with slightly twining shoot-apices. Leaves opposite, long-petiolate. Flowers in axillary, many-flowered cymes. Corolla contorted in bud; lobes patent at anthesis. Corona single; segments 5, free, without awns. Pollinia erect. Follicles narrowly ovoid, acuminate, smooth.

Literature: K. Browicz, Arboretum Kórnickie 12: 5-32 (1967).