Mid-Atlantic Herbaria - Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae
Max Licher	VPAP Resources JANAS 30(2) PLANTS: Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. LEAVES: simple, mostly opposite, cauline or forming basal rosettes. INFLORESCENCE: mostly cymes. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic; sepals and petals 4 or 5, united but often deeply parted; stamens 4 or 5, epipetalous; pistil 1, carpels 2, ovary superior, the placentation mostly parietal. FRUIT: a capsule. SEEDS: numerous. NOTES: 80 genera, 900 spp., world-wide. REFERENCES: Mason, Charles T. 1998 Gentianaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 84.
Species within checklist: Gentianaceae of New Jersey Bartonia paniculata Bartonia virginica Centaurium pulchellum Gentiana andrewsii Gentiana autumnalis Gentiana catesbaei Gentiana linearis Gentiana quinquefolia Gentiana saponaria Gentiana villosa Gentianella quinquefolia Gentianopsis crinita Obolaria virginica Sabatia angularis Sabatia campanulata Sabatia difformis Sabatia dodecandra Sabatia stellaris Schenkia spicata