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(Last Modified On 8/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/14/2013)
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Genus
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Angelonia Humboldt & Bonpland
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PlaceOfPublication
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P1. Aequin. 2: 92. 1809.
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Note
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TYPE: A. salicariaefolia H. & B.
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Description
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Erect or prostrate herbs or shrubs, pubescent with multicellular, often glan- dular hairs. Leaves subopposite, opposite below, mostly toothed, subentire, pinnately nerved, mostly without a defined petiole. Inflorescences solitary flowers
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Habit
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herbs or shrubs
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Description
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in the leaf axils but sometimes aggregated into showy racemes or spikes, the pedicels sometimes with minute basal bracts. Flowers strongly zygomorphic, the calyx 5-lobed to the base, the lobes ovate, alike, appearing imbricate; corolla cupular campanulate with 2 widely flaring lips, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed with 2 pollen-collecting sacs, the lobes all similar; anthers 4, the filaments short, inserted near the base of the corolla tube, the anthers alike, the 2 thecae strongly divaricate and basally connate, situated at the throat against the upper side of the corolla; the stigma capitate, situated near the anthers.
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Note
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Capsule globose, dehiscing into 2 valves, the placentas honeycomblike.
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Distribution
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about 25 species in South America and two other species in Central America.
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Note
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The species treated here also occurs in the Antilles. At least two species are widely cultivated.
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