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Schinziella Gilg

Genus

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae

Characteristics

Perennial herb. Stem erect, simple or branched from the base, 4-angled. Leaves opposite, much reduced and scale-like, sessile. Inflorescences in terminal compact heads. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx tube as long as lobes. Corolla tube cylindrical; lobes as long as tube. Stamens unequal, 3 sterile, 1 larger, fertile; filaments on corolla tube. Ovary unilocular; ovules numerous; style filiform; stigma bilobed. Capsule bivalved. Seeds minute.
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Corolla regular with a cylindric tube and with 4 lobes about as long as the tube, without nectaries.
Ovary cylindric-ovoid, unilocular; ovules numerous; style filiform; stigma bilobed.
Leaves sessile, the upper ones much reduced and scale-like.
Flowers 4-merous in compact, pedunculate, terminal heads.
Stamens 4, unequal, 3 sterile, 1 larger, fertile.
Stems not or sparsely branched from the base.
Capsule narrowly-obovoid, bivalved.
Calyx tube as long as the lobes.
Seeds numerous, subglobose.
Erect perennial herbs.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326980-2
WFO ID wfo-4000034345
COL ID 7DFD
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Synonyms

Schinziella

Lower taxons

Schinziella tetragona
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