Family: Gesneriaceae

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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.