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Polemoniaceae - Phlox family
Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Description of the family
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: 1 genus and 1 taxon. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Polemoniaceae
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Plants of the World Online: Polemoniaceae
Tropicos: Polemoniaceae
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