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Gentianaceae
Gentianaceae
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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:
Collected for the "Flora of the Carolinas"
Bartonia verna
Frasera caroliniensis
Gentiana austromontana
Gentiana autumnalis
Gentiana catesbaei
Gentiana clausa
Gentiana decora
Gentiana quinquefolia
Gentiana saponaria
Gentiana villosa
Gentianopsis crinita
Obolaria virginica
Sabatia angularis
Sabatia bartramii
Sabatia brachiata
Sabatia brevifolia
Sabatia difformis
Sabatia dodecandra
Sabatia gentianoides
Sabatia kennedyana
Sabatia quadrangula
Sabatia stellaris
