Citation: Moench, Meth. 482 (1794).

Derivation: Diminutive of Gentiana.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual to perennial herbs to 25 cm high, branched mainly from the basal rosette, leaves sessile to petiolate, scarcely connate in pairs.

Sepals scarcely connate, with 5 lobes; corolla cup-shaped or an open bell-shape, with 5 lobes; stamens with filaments scarcely fused to the corolla tube; anthers hardly twisted after the pollen is shed; ovary bicarpellary, 1-celled, gradually tapering into 2 sessile terminal stigmas.

Capsule often exceeding the persistent calyx and corolla.

Distribution:  About 125 species widespread in north and south temperate regions.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available