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Taxonomy

Physical Description

Family Hydrophyllaceae:

Herbs or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent, occasionally glandular, bristly, or thorny. Leaves alternate or opposite, occasionally in a basal rosette, simple or variously lobed or divided, without stipules. Inflorescences solitary flowers, cymose, or paniculate. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, usually 5-merous, often showy. Calyx ± gamosepalous, sinuses sometimes appendaged. Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate, tubular, or rotate; lobes overlapping in bud. Stamens usually 5; filaments attached to corolla, often alternating with scalelike appendages; anthers 2-locular, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary superior, 1- or 2- (several) locular, with 2 parietal placentae; ovules few or numerous. Styles 1 or 2, usually lobed or divided; stigma capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, rarely also septicidal or opening irregularly. Seeds usually with a sculptured or pitted coat; endosperm enclosing a small embryo.

Eighteen to 22 genera and ca. 300 species: mostly in North and South America, with a few in Africa, Asia, and Australia; one genus with one species in China.^[1]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eriodictyon:

There are approximately 45 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: E. californicum australe · E. californicum glutinosum · E. crassifolium benthamianum · E. crassifolium grayanum · E. altissimum (Indian Knob Mountain Balm) · E. angustifolium (Narrow-Leafed Yerba Santa) · E. angustifolium var. pubens · E. californicum (California Yerba Santa) · E. californicum f. latifolia · E. californicum f. linearis · E. californicum subsp. australe · E. californicum subsp. glutinosum · E. californicum subvar. coarctatum · E. californicum var. lanatum · E. californicum var. pubens · E. californicus · E. californicus var. pubens · E. capitatum (Lompoc Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium (Thick-Leaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium Benth. var. crassifolium Benth. (Thickleaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium Benth. var. nigrescens Brand (Thickleaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium subsp. benthamianum · E. crassifolium subsp. grayanum · E. crassifolium var. crassifolium · E. crassifolium var. nigrescens · E. crassifolium var. niveum · E. crassifolium var. traskiae · E. crassifolium var. typica · E. glutinosum · E. glutinosum var. angustifolium · E. glutinosum var. serratum · E. lobbii · E. niveum · E. parryi · E. sessifolium · E. sessilifolium · E. tomentosum (Woolly Yerba Santa) · E. tormentosum · E. traskiae (Pacific Yerba Santa) · E. traskiae smithii · E. tricalyx · E. trichocalyx (Hairy Yerba Santa) · E. trichocalyx lanatum var. lanatum · E. trichocalyx var. lanatum · E. trichocalyx var. trichocalyx

Bibliography

• Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Hydrophyllaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 160-161.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16032035
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:290716-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3450633

Footnotes:

1. Ruizheng Fang & Constance Lincoln "Hydrophyllaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 328. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.