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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Ranunculaceae
Consolida

Citation: Gray, Nat. arr. Brit. Pl. 2:711 (1821).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annuals with slender taproots and alternate palmately divided leaves.

Flowers in racemes or panicles, zygomorphic, bisexual; sepals 5, petaloid, the upper one prolonged into a conical spur; petals 2, united into a single spurred nectary, its spur being placed in the sepal spur; stamens numerous, in 5 spirally arranged series; carpel 1; ovules numerous.

Fruit a many-seeded follicle.

Distribution:  About 60 species in central Asia to the Mediterranean area. Consolida has been included by many in Delphinium L. as a section or subgenus.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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