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(Last Modified On 7/1/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/1/2013)
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Family
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DROSERACEAE
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Contributor
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M. D. CORREA A. AND A. S. TAYLOR
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Description
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Low herbs, often stemless. Leaves alternate, mostly basal, in rosettes, often circinate in bud, with glandular hairs and sticky secretion which trap small in- sects; stipules present or absent. Inflorescences usually circinate cymes or ra- cemes. Flowers perfect; sepals 4-8, more or less connate at the base, imbricate, persistent; petals 4-8, hypogynous, imbricate, marcescent; stamens 4-20, the fila- ments usually free, filiform or nearly so, the anthers 2-locular, extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits; ovary superior, free, 2-5-carpellate, with 1 locule, the pla- centa parietal or subbasal, the ovules numerous, anatropous, the styles 3-5, usu- ally free, simple or divided. Fruits usually loculicidally dehiscent; seeds minute, dark colored, variously reticulate and ornamented.
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Habit
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herbs
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