Genlisea Saint-Hilaire (1833: 428)

Costa, Suzana M., Bittrich, Volker & Do Amaral, Maria Do Carmo E., 2016, Lentibulariaceae from the Viruá National Park in the northern Amazon, Roraima, Brazil, Phytotaxa 258 (1), pp. 1-25 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.258.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13673178

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B487D2-FFFF-5873-FF0A-FF0BFB5BFE75

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Felipe

scientific name

Genlisea Saint-Hilaire (1833: 428)
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Genlisea Saint-Hilaire (1833: 428) View in CoL

Marsh herbs. Leaves of 2 types: (1) achlorophyllous, subterranean, modified into tubular inverted-Y shaped traps; and (2) chlorophyllous, aerial, generally at the base, laminar, obovate or linear-lanceolate. Raceme glabrous, with simple and/or glandular hairs. Flowers yellow, whitish or violet. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovate to deltoid or acute. Corolla with lower lip trilobed to obscurely trilobed. Ovules numerous. Style short and persistent. Stigma bilabiate. Capsule globose with multiple-circumscissile, circumscissile-whorled or longitudinal-valvate dehiscence. Seeds numerous, generally ovoid to globose with polygonal to rectangular testa cells.

Distribution:—The genus occurs in tropical America, Africa and Madagascar; 29 species.

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