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Published In: Flora Altaica 1: 370, 381. 1829. (Fl. Altaic.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
General/Distribution: A genus with about 19 species, distributed from Europe to Central Asia; possibly represented in Pakistan by 1 species. Hedge (l.c. 337) drew attention to the nomenclatural complictions involving the use of the generic name.

 

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Annual herbs, pubescent or hairs long-villous, rarely glabrous. Stem erect, short, much branched. Leaves fleshy, alternate, linear, terete, tip mucronate, mucro dehiscent. Flowers solitary axillary, sessile, subtended by adpressed bracts. Perianth segments 5, ± oblong, free, membranous when young, hardening in fruit and flask-shaped below, enveloping the fruit with erect connivent upper parts, without wing-like appendages or with short wing-like protuberances. Stamens (4-) 5; anthers linear; connective appendages prominent, vesicular, generally yellow, subsessile. Style bifid. Seeds vertical; embryo spiral; endosperm absent.
 
 
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