EcoFlora - Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae
Max Licher	VPAP Resources 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 Media not available Sabatia tuberculata Swertia perennis Zeltnera arizonica Zeltnera calycosa Zeltnera exaltata Zeltnera namophila Zeltnera nudicaulis Zeltnera pusilla