Flora of New Zealand Series

Perennial herbs, usually short-lived, with creeping or trailing stems. Lvs alternate above, opposite below, reniform to suborbicular, palmately veined, entire or palmately lobed. Fls solitary in lf axils. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes unequal. Corolla tube cylindric, spurred at base; limb 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed and with a pouch closing the throat or mouth of tube. Stamens 4, included. Capsule ± globose, with loculi similar, opening by 2 lateral pores. Seeds ridged, tuberculate or alveolate, not winged.

10-15 spp., W. Europe, Mediterranean region. Naturalised sp. 1.