Dorstenia

Dorstenia, a genus including thirty-six species of curious herbaceous plants, natives of tropical America, related to the figs. They have radical leaves and a scape terminating in a common receptacle, which is often quadrangular and on which are the numerous achlamydeous flowers. The ovary is one-chambered and one-seeded, and has a bifid stigma. After the fertilisation of the flowers the receptacle becomes slightly succulent, though less so than that of the figs. It thus resembles a fig opened out into a plate-like body.