![]() 300 species: mostly in North and South America, with a few in Africa, Asia, and Australia one genus with one species in China.įang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. Seeds usually with a sculptured or pitted coat endosperm enclosing a small embryo.Įighteen to 22 genera and ca. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, rarely also septicidal or opening irregularly. Styles 1 or 2, usually lobed or divided stigma capitate. Ovary superior, 1- or 2- (several) locular, with 2 parietal placentae ovules few or numerous. Stamens usually 5 filaments attached to corolla, often alternating with scalelike appendages anthers 2-locular, longitudinally dehiscent. ally a monochasial, scorpioid cyme or composed of cymose. ![]() It is from 2-6 inches tall with finely divided leaves and dense cymose head-like. Key words: Boraginaceae, Boraginales, Hydrophyllaceae, Lamiids, Lennoaceae, phylogenetics. Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate, tubular, or rotate lobes overlapping in bud. A small plant of the high elevations - upper Hudsonian and Arctic-alpine zones. Calyx ± gamosepalous, sinuses sometimes appendaged. Flowers cymose-paniculate, rather small, in our species dioecious. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, usually 5-merous, often showy. Hydrolea, in HYDROPHYLLACEAE, 360 Style single. Inflorescences solitary flowers, cymose, or paniculate. ![]() Leaves alternate or opposite, occasionally in a basal rosette, simple or variously lobed or divided, without stipules. Herbs or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent, occasionally glandular, bristly, or thorny. Flowers aggregated in inflorescences (usually), or solitary (rarely) in cymes. Authors: Ruizheng Fang & Constance Lincoln ![]()
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