Contains 7 genera and 23 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
GENTIANACEAE
Dicot
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Classification
GENTIANALES
GENTIANACEAE
Identification Key
1. Leaves scale-like, 0.5-5 mm long
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1. Leaves linear to expanded, larger ones 5-100 mm long, these sometimes placed as bracts subtending flowers
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2. Stem green to purplish; corolla narrowly campanulate, lobes 4, longer than the tube
2. Stem whitish to pale yellowish; corolla salverform, lobes 5, shorter than the tube
3. Stem leaves scale-like, much smaller than those subtending flower; flower subtended by 2 foliaceous bracts or leaves and the calyx absent
3. Stem leaves foliaceous, larger than to subequal to those below the flower; calyx of 4-12(14) sepals, some or all connate at least at the base
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4. Corolla lobes shorter than the tube, with tooth-like or fringed projections between the lobes
4. Corolla lobes longer than the tube, lacking projections between the lobes
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5. Stem and leaves often blue-green, strongly glaucous; flowers 5-merous; style not cleft or split
5. Stem and leaves green and non-glaucous or blue-green and glaucous; flowers 5-12-merous; style apically split at least 1 mm