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Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Herbs or rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, pinnate or palmate. Stipules 0. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous. Disk hypogynous. Calyx lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or rotate. Stamens attached to the corolla, alternating with corolla lobes. Ovary superior, usually 3-locular; placentas axile. Ovules usually many in each loculus, Style 1, usually 3-fid. Fruit a usually loculicidal capsule. Worldwide: 20 genera and 290 species in America and Eurasia Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated genera and 5 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Genus | Content |
| Cantua Lam. | Description |
| Cobaea Cav. | Description |
| Gilia Ruiz & Pavon | Description |
| Phlox L. | Description |
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