Family: Gentianaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Gentianales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Gentianaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Herbs, subshrubs, or small trees, the herbs sometimes saprophytic (Voyria).
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite, sometimes perfoliate; small and scale-like in saprophytic herbs.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence terminal or axillary, a dichasia, raceme, or spike, or flowers solitary.
Flowers: Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or weakly zygomorphic, usually 5-merous; sepals fused or free; petals fused with dinstinct tube and contorted lobes; stamens usually 5; ovary superior, 1-2-locular, the placentation parietal or axile.
Fruit: Fruit a 2-valved, septicidally dehiscent capsule or indehiscent.
Seeds: Seeds many per fruit.