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Description
Family Gentianaceae
Herbs [shrubs
or small trees
], annual
, biennial, or perennial
. Stems ascending
, erect
, or twining
. Leaves opposite, less often alternate or whorled
, simple
, base
connate
; stipules absent. Inflorescences simple or complex
cymes, sometimes reduced to sessile clusters
, often in a thyrse
or 1-flowered. Flowers bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, 4 or 5 (or 6-8) [-12]-merous. Calyx tubular
, obconic, campanulate
, or rotate, lobes
joined at least basally. Corolla tubular, obconic, salverform
, funnelform
, campanulate, or rotate, rarely with basal spurs; lobes overlapping to right
or rarely valvate
in bud; plicae (extensions
of the corolla tube
between the lobes) present or absent. Stamens inserted
on corolla tube or occasionally at sinus
between corolla lobes, alternate with lobes; anthers
basifixed
or dorsifixed
, 2-locular. Nectaries absent or attached to ovary base or corolla. Ovary usually 1-locular at least apically, rarely 2-locular due to intrusion of a lamellate
placenta into locular
cavity
. Fruit a 2-valved capsule, rarely a berry. Seeds many or rarely few, small; endosperm abundant [scant in saprophytic
genera].
About 80 genera and 700 species: worldwide; 20 genera and 419 species in China, of which two genera and 251 species are endemic.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Gentiananae
()
- Thorne Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Gentianales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Gentianaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- gentianes, gentians
- Tribe:
Chironieae
()
- Subtribe:
Chironiinae
()
- Genus:
Chironia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
gratissima
- S.Moore
- Botanical name: - Chironia gratissima S.Moore
- Specific epithet:
gratissima
- S.Moore
- Genus:
Chironia
(
- Subtribe:
Chironiinae
(
- Tribe:
Chironieae
(
- Family:
Gentianaceae
(
- Order:
Gentianales
(
- Superorder:
Gentiananae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : S.Moore Publication : J. Linn. Soc., Bot. xl 148 (1911)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Chironia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. angularis (Squarestem Rosegentian)
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Further Reading
- A record of plants collected in Southern Rhodesia; arramged on Engler's system. Compiled by Fred. Eyles. Cape Town, 1916 url p. 443.
- Ho Ting-nung; Liu Shang-wu, & Wu Ching-ju in Ho Ting-nung, ed. 1988. Gentianaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 62: 1-411.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9419864
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15493611
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:366822-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 366822-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1284818
Footnotes
- Ting-nung Ho & James S. Pringle "Gentianaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
