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Swertia
Family: Gentianaceae
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JANAS 30(2)
PLANTS: Annual or perennial herbs with caudex or rhizomes. STEMS: erect, leafy, scapose or subscapose. LEAVES: in basal rosettes or cauline, opposite or whorled, often with white margins. INFLORESCENCE: cymes, racemes, or panicles. FLOWERS: rotate, 4- or 5-merous; calyx deeply cleft, the lobes fused only near the base; corolla deeply parted, sometimes bearing a fringed crown (corona) at the base of the lobes, the lobes with 1 or 2 fringed nectar pits; stamens adnate to the short corolla tube; pistil sessile, the style short with 2 stigmas. (Frasera Walt.) NOTES: Ca 100 spp., N. Amer, Eur., Asia, Afr. (for E. Sweert, a Dutch gardener, author). Card, H. H. 1931. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 18:245-280. St. John, H. 1941. Amer. MidI. Naturalist 26: 1-29. REFERENCES: Mason, Charles T. 1998 Gentianaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 84.
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Swertia abyssinica
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Swertia alata
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Swertia albicaulis
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Swertia alternifolia
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Swertia angustifolia
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Swertia bigelowii
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Swertia bimaculata
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Swertia brownii
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Swertia calycina
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Swertia ciliata
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Swertia coloradensis
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Swertia columbiana
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Swertia congesta
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Swertia cordata
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Swertia corniculata
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Swertia covillei
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Swertia crassiuscula
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Swertia cuneata
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Swertia cusickii
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Swertia dichotoma
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Swertia diluta
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Swertia eastwoodiae
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Swertia f1 hybrid
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Swertia fastigiata
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Swertia fritillaria
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Swertia gypsicola
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Swertia idahoensis
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Swertia japonica
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Swertia javanica
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Swertia kilimandscharica
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Swertia lactea
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Swertia lassenica
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Swertia lugardiae
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Swertia macrosperma
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Swertia marginata
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Swertia montana
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Swertia multicaulis
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Swertia neglecta
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Swertia nervosa
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Swertia nitida
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Swertia occidentalis
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Swertia palustris
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Swertia paniculata
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Swertia parallela
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Swertia perennis
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Swertia pseudochinensis
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Swertia puberulenta
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Swertia pumila
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Swertia punicea
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Swertia scandens
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