Family: Gesneriaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Lamiales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Gesneriaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Epiphytic or terrestrial herbs, subshrubs, shrubs, or vines.
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite, rarely whorled, the lamina of a pair sometimes strongly unequal.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence a raceme, modified cyme, or of solitary flowers, axillary or terminal.
Flowers: Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic or sometimes nearly actinomorphic; calyx lobes 5, rarely 2; corolla lobes 5; stamens 4-5, adnate to corolla, staminodes sometimes present; ovary superior, 1-locular, the style simple, the placentation parietal.
Fruit: Fruit a berry or dry or fleshy 2-valved capsule.
Seeds: Seeds tiny, numerous per fruit.
Other
Notes: Some genera associated with ants.