Triodanis Raf.

Venus' looking-glass (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, annual. Roots fibrous. Stems erect or ascending, simple or branched below, ribbed. Leaves alternate, sessile, ovate, elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, entire or dentate. Flowers 1-3(-8) in an axillary cyme, sessile or subsessile; cleistogamous flowers in axils of lower leaves; normal flowers in axils of middle to upper leaves. Calyx 3-or 4(-6)-lobed, with lobes shorter in cleistogamous flowers, 5(or 6)-lobed in normal flowers. Corolla blue-purple or pale purple, rarely white, rotate, 5(or 6)-fid nearly to base; lobes lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate. Stamens 5(or 6), free; filaments dilated at base; anthers elongate, longer than filaments. Ovary inferior, (2 or)3-locular; ovules numerous; style upright, but reduced in cleistogamous flowers; stigma (2 or)3-fid, densely puberulent. Capsule subcylindrical or clavate, (2 or)3-poricidal at inferior part. Seeds numerous, globose to broadly ellipsoid, slightly compressed.
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Fls sessile or subsessile in the middle and upper axils, 1–several per axil, forming a dense or interrupted false spike, the lower fls cleistogamous, with reduced or abortive cor, the upper fls with normal, regular, wide open cor, the 5 lobes longer than the tube; cal-lobes 5, or only 3 or 4 in cleistogamous fls; stamens free, the short filaments expanded and ciliate at base; ovary mostly trilocular with axile placentas, varying to unilocular and with parietal placentas; stigma (2)3-lobed; capsules linear to ellipsoid or clavate, opening by pores at or usually above the middle; seeds numerous; annuals with toothed lvs. 8, mostly N. Amer.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

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Distribution

Triodanis world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, Micronesia (Federated States of), Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Peru, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Paraguay, Taiwan, Province of China, Uruguay, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30036260-2
WFO ID wfo-4000039229
COL ID 8W4DT
BDTFX ID 100680
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Triodanis

Lower taxons

Triodanis perfoliata Triodanis leptocarpa Triodanis lamprosperma Triodanis coloradoensis Triodanis texana Triodanis holzingeri