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JANAS 30(2)
PLANTS
: Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs.
LEAVES
: simple, mostly opposite, cauline or forming basal rosettes.
INFLORESCENCE
: mostly cymes.
FLOWERS
: perfect, actinomorphic; sepals and petals 4 or 5, united but often deeply parted; stamens 4 or 5, epipetalous; pistil 1, carpels 2, ovary superior, the placentation mostly parietal.
FRUIT
: a capsule.
SEEDS
: numerous.
NOTES
: 80 genera, 900 spp., world-wide.
REFERENCES
: Mason, Charles T. 1998 Gentianaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 84.
Species within checklist:
Pinaleno Mountains
Centaurium calycosum
Frasera speciosa
Gentiana affinis
Gentianopsis thermalis
Halenia recurva
This project made possible by
National Science Foundation Award EF 1702516
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