Polemoniaceae
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CANOTIA (2005)
PLANT: Annuals, perennial herbs, or shrubs, pubescent, rarely glabrous. LEAVES: alternate to opposite, simple to compound; stipules absent. INFLORESCENCE: cymose, open to congested, the cymes usually arranged in panicles; flowers rarely solitary. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic to zygomorphic, hypogynous; sepals usually 5, united, with equal to unequal lobes, the tube usually with herbaceous ribs separated by hyaline membranes that are distended or ruptured in fruit; corolla tubular, with 5 lobes; stamens usually 5, epipetalous, alternate with the corolla lobes, equally to unequally inserted; filaments equal to unequal in length; ovary usually with 3 locules; style simple, included to exserted, with (2-)3 stigmatic lobes. FRUIT: a capsule, rarely indehiscent or circumscissile, with 1-many ovules and seeds in each locule, the mature seeds in most taxa becoming gelatinous when wet. NOTES: ca 26 genera, ca 380 spp., chiefly of western N. Amer. but also in western S. Amer. and temperate Eurasia. Porter, J. M. and L. A. Johnson. Aliso 19: 55-91. 2000. REFERENCES: Dieter H. Wilken and J. Mark Porter, 2005, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Polemoniaceae. CANOTIA 1: 1-37.
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Acanthogilia gloriosa
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Aegochloa cotulaefolia
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Aliciella caespitosa
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Aliciella cliffordii
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Aliciella formosa
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Aliciella haydenii
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Aliciella heterostyla
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Aliciella humillima
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Aliciella hutchinsifolia
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Aliciella latifolia
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Aliciella leptomeria
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Aliciella lottiae
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Aliciella mcvickerae
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Aliciella micromeria
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Aliciella monoensis
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Aliciella nyensis
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Aliciella pentstemonoides
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Aliciella pinnatifida
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Aliciella ripleyi
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Aliciella sedifolia
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Aliciella stenothyrsa
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Aliciella subnuda
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Aliciella tenuis
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Aliciella triodon
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Allophyllum divaricatum
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Allophyllum gilioides
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Allophyllum glutinosum
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Allophyllum integrifolium
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Allophyllum nemophilophyllum
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Allophyllum violaceum
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Bonplandia geminiflora
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Bonplandia linearis
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Bryantiella glutinosa
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Bryantiella palmeri
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Callisteris flavida
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Cantua bicolor
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Cantua buxifolia
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Cantua candelilla
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Cantua coerulea
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Cantua cuzcoensis
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Cantua dendritica
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Cantua flexuosa
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Cantua longifolia
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Cantua ovata
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Cantua pyrifolia
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Cantua quercifolia
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Cantua volcanica
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Cobaea aschersoniana
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Cobaea biaurita
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Cobaea lutea
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