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Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Verdcourt, B. (1990) Hydrophyllaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(4)
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. Comment: 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 North America; absent from Australia Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 1 cultivated taxon. |
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