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Swertia
Family: Gentianaceae Max Licher	VPAP Web Links 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. Encyclopedia of Life W3Tropicos USDA PLANTS Database Flora of North America International Plant Names Index Google Search Engine Google Images BOLD Systems - Barcode of Life Data Systems Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
Species within inventory project: \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Frasera ackermaniae Frasera albomarginata Frasera caroliniensis Frasera gypsicola Frasera paniculata Frasera parryi Frasera speciosa Halenia brevicornis Halenia plantaginea Halenia recurva Swertia abyssinica Swertia albicaulis Swertia bigelowii Swertia bimaculata Images not available Swertia brownii Swertia calycina Swertia coloradensis Swertia columbiana Swertia congesta Swertia covillei Swertia crassiuscula Swertia cusickii Images not available Swertia dichotoma Images not available Swertia eastwoodiae Images not available Swertia f1 hybrid Images not available Swertia fastigiata Images not available Swertia fritillaria Swertia gypsicola Swertia idahoensis Swertia kilimandscharica Swertia lassenica Images not available Swertia lugardiae Swertia marginata Images not available Swertia montana Swertia neglecta Images not available Swertia nitida Images not available Swertia occidentalis Swertia palustris Swertia paniculata Swertia parallela Images not available Swertia perennis Swertia pseudochinensis Images not available Swertia puberulenta Swertia pumila Swertia scandens Swertia scopulina Swertia speciosa Swertia tashiroi Images not available Swertia tetrandra Swertia tubulosa