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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/9/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/9/2013)
Genus Pinguicula L.
PlaceOfPublication Sp. P1. 17. 1753
Note TYPE: P. vulgaris L.
Description Annual or perennial herbs of damp places, scapose with numerous filiform roots. Leaves radical, entire, sessile or petiolate, + fleshy, covered on the upper surface with sessile and stipitate viscid glands which capture and digest small organisms. Pedicels erect, ebracteate. Flowers solitary; calyx 5-fid, ? bilabiate; corolla yellow, white or various shades of pink to purple or blue, limb ? bilabiate, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes entire to + deeply bifid, or rarely the limb + regularly 5-lobed, the spur short to very long; stamens short, the filaments incurved, the anthers globose; ovary + globose, glandular, the ovules numerous. Capsules ? globose, laterally bivalvate or dehiscing irregularly; seeds minute, oblong, rugose.
Habit herbs
Distribution This is a widespread genus of about 45 species distributed throughout the north temperate and mediterranean regions, the Himalayas, southeastern United States, and Central and South America. One species occurs in Panama.
 
 
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