Gentianaceae
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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:
Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network
Centaurium namophilum
Comastoma tenellum
Frasera albicaulis
Frasera albomarginata
Frasera gypsicola
Frasera montana
Frasera pahutensis
Frasera paniculata
Frasera puberulenta
Frasera speciosa
Gentiana affinis
Gentiana algida
Gentiana calycosa
Gentiana newberryi
Gentiana parryi
Gentiana prostrata
Gentianella amarella
Gentianella tortuosa
Gentianopsis barbellata
Gentianopsis detonsa
Gentianopsis holopetala
Gentianopsis simplex
Swertia perennis
Zeltnera calycosa
Zeltnera exaltata
Zeltnera muehlenbergii