Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Metachlamydeae

Hydrophyllaceae - Wigandia family

Literature

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Verdcourt, B. (1990) Hydrophyllaceae FZ 7(4)

Description of the family

Herbs or (in ours) a subshrubby herb or shrub, often scabrid. Stipules 0. Leaves usually alternate, simple (in ours) or compound. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, in scorpioid cymes (in ours). Calyx deeply 5-lobed. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted on tube. Ovary superior, 1(-2)-locular. Styles 1 or 2. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing by 2 valves.

This family is similar to the Boraginaceae, but it differs in the fruit being a capsule whereas in Boraginaceae, the fruit is a drupe or 1-4 nutlets.

Worldwide: 18 genera and 270 species, ± cosmopolitan, but mainly western N America; absent from Australia

Links to genera: (1) View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family

Genus	Content
Wigandia Kunth	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Hydrophyllaceae:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Hydrophyllaceae page
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Hydrophyllaceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar