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Lentibulariaceae

Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Annual or perennial carnivorous herbs, aquatic or of wet places, with roots fibrous or absent; leaves radical, or alternate or verticillate on stolons.

Inflorescence a raceme or flowers solitary-scapose; flowers zygomorphic, bisexual; calyx lobes 2, 4 or 5, persistent; corolla 2-lipped, the lower lip usually spurred; stamens 2, connivent, inserted at the base of the upper corolla lip; anther cells 2, often more or less confluent; ovary superior, 2-carpellate, 1-celled; ovules few to many on a free basal placenta; style usually short; stigma 2-lipped.

Fruit a capsule, 1-many-seeded, valvate, circumscissile or indehiscent.

Distribution:  3 genera with about 280 species, cosmopolitan but mainly in the tropics.

Biology: No text

Author: Prepared by P. Taylor


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