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Herbs annual or perennial, short strigose. Leaves alternate. Cymes terminal or flowers solitary, bracteate. Calyx 5-parted nearly to base, slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla white, yellow, or violet, actinomorphic, funnelform or salverform; throat with appendages or bands of hairs, or longitudinally crispate; limb usually campanulate, 5-parted; lobes spreading. Stamens included; filament very short; anthers oblong-linear, apex obtuse, mucronulate. Style filiform, not exserted; stigma entire or indistinctly 2-cleft, capitate. Gynobase flat. Nutlets white or gray, ovoid, smooth, shiny or tuberculate; attachment scar at base adaxially.
Cor funnelform or salverform, with or without fornices; anthers included or partly exserted; gynobase low-pyramidal or flat or depressed; nutlets smooth to pitted or wrinkled, basally attached, the large scar often surrounded by a sharp rim, sometimes only one nutlet maturing; annual to more often perennial herbs, seldom pungently hairy, with mostly yellow or white or greenish-white fls in modified leafy-bracteate cymes, or solitary in or near the upper axils, often heterostylic; fruiting pedicels mostly erect or ascending. (Buglossoides) 75, widespread, mostly temperate and mountainous regions.
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubs, hispid or with soft hairs. Infl. short, strongly bracteate, cymose, often terminal. Calyx 5-lobed, sometimes divided to base, persistent. Corolla cylindric, usually funnelform, rarely salverform; tube > lobes, with 5 longitudinal folds; lobes white, yellowish, blue or purple; throat with bands of hairs or scales. Stamens included. Stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Nutlets smooth or tuberculate, shining, very hard.
Fruit dry, consisting of 4 nutlets or less by abortion; nutlets detaching completely from the receptacle, ovoid to ellipsoid, erect, smooth, white and shining, with the dorsal surface convex and the ventral one obtusely angular with a flat or convex point of attachment.
Corolla cylindrical to infundibuliform, orange, yellowish or whitish; tube with 5 more or less glandular invaginations in the throat and with a ring of nectaries at the base, inside; lobes imbricate in bud.
Style gynobasic, filiform, entire or sometimes slightly 2-fid at the apex, included or sometimes almost exserted.
Flowers 5-merous, actinomorphic, isostylous or heterostylous, on leafy terminal or axillary cymes.
Stamens inserted about the middle or near the top of the corolla tube, included.
Ovary with 4 free lobes, inserted on the narrow gynobase.
Stigmas 2, terminal or subtenninal or 1, bilobed.
Perennial herbs or undershrubs.
Calyx lobed to near the base.
Leaves alternate, entire.
