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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 inventory project:
Arizona Flora
Centaurium pulchellum
Comastoma tenellum
Eustoma exaltatum
Eustoma grandiflorum
Frasera albomarginata
Frasera paniculata
Frasera parryi
Frasera speciosa
Gentiana affinis
Gentiana fremontii
Gentiana parryi
Gentiana puberulenta
Gentianella amarella
Gentianella microcalyx
Gentianella wislizeni
Gentianella wrightii
Gentianopsis barbellata
Gentianopsis macrantha
Gentianopsis thermalis
Halenia hintoni
Halenia recurva
Lisianthius russellianus
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Sabatia tuberculata
Swertia perennis
Zeltnera arizonica
Zeltnera calycosa
Zeltnera exaltata
Zeltnera namophila
Zeltnera nudicaulis
Zeltnera pusilla
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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