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Genus

Angiosperms > Ericales > Diapensiaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, colonial, scapose, rhizomatous; rhizome slender, scale-leaved, slightly lignescent. Stems erect, unbranched. Leaves basal or rosulate at rhizome tips, 80-350 mm; petiole present; blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, margins finely dentate-serrate, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous, subpalmately veined. Scapes ebracteate, barely elongating after flowering. Inflorescences compact racemes. Flowers: sepals barely connate proximally; petals distinct nearly to base, corolla urceolate, 3.5-8 mm, lobes white, margins entire; anthers 1-locular, without basal spurs, transversely dehiscent; filaments and staminodes connate basally, forming coronalike tube adnate to corolla base, free distally; staminodes present. x = 6.
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Sep distinct; cor cleft nearly to the base; stamens and staminodes monadelphous, the tube adnate to the cor at the base, free above, 10-lobed at the top, the lobes opposite the sep bearing anthers; anthers inflexed, with a single transversely dehiscent pollen-sac; style none; stigma broad; fr ovoid; evergreen perennial herbs with long-petioled basal lvs and erect scapes bearing a long, spike-like raceme of small white fls. Monospecific.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Distribution

Galax world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331619-2
WFO ID wfo-4000015199
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Synonyms

Galax

Lower taxons

Galax urceolata
WorldFloraDB 2024