C.C. Townsend (1993) Pleuropterantha. Flora of Somalia 1: 148-149
Plants small shrubs, shrubby perennials, or annuals. Leaves alternate, entire. Inflorescences of spikelike, axillary, bracteate branches, each bract subtending 3 flowers, the central flowers fertile, the 2 lateral flowers highly modified, initially small and blunt, but becoming accrescent in fruit to form a wide, membranous wing with prominent, anastomosing veins. Tepals 5, the outer pair firm and veined, the inner 3 more delicate, hyaline; stamens 5, fused at the base; pseudostaminodes absent; ovaries with 1 ovule each; styles short and thick; stigmas shortly bilobed. Fruits hard, indehiscent, more or less compressed nutlets with thick circumferential rims, enclosed by the persistent perianths and falling together with the sterile flowers and bracteoles.
Pleuropterantha is a genus of 3 species, all of which grow in Somaliland and Somalia.
Key to the species of Pleuropterantha in Somaliland and Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.