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Annual to perennial herb [ tree].
Leaf: generally cauline, generally simple, generally alternate, petioled or not; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: cyme, panicle, raceme, spike, or flowers 1; terminal or in axils of leaf-like or reduced bracts.
Flower: bisexual, cleistogamous or open, radial or bilateral, inverted ( pedicel twisted 180°) or not; hypanthium generally present, ± fused to ovary; sepals generally 5; corolla radial to 2-lipped, petals generally fused, tube deeply divided on 1 side or not, lobes generally 5; stamens 5, free or ± fused ( anthers, filaments fused into tube or filaments fused above middle); ovary inferior or 1/2 inferior (superior in fruit), chambers 1–3, placentas axile or parietal, ovules many, style generally 1, 2–5-branched.
Fruit: generally capsule, open on sides or top by pores or short valves.
Seed: many.
± 90 genera, ± 2500 species: worldwide. [Haberle et al. 2008 J Molec Evol 66:350–361] Some cultivated for ornamental (Campanula, Jasione, Lobelia). Subfamilies sometimes treated as families. Positions of flower parts given after flowering inversion, if any. Parishella moved to Nemacladus. —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Unabridged references: [Lammers 2007 World Checklist and Bibliography of Campanulaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.]
Annual, glabrous to hairy; roots fibrous.Key to Githopsis
Stem: erect, 2–40 cm, 4-angled, branched or not.
Leaf: cauline, widely linear to ovate, serrate, sessile.
Inflorescence: flowers terminal, bracts 2–4, linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate, to ovate.
Flower: not inverted, pedicelled or not; sepals 0.5–3 × ovary, linear to narrowly triangular; corolla cylindric, funnel-, or bell-shaped, throat white, lobes linear to widely ovate, white to deep purple; ovary inferior, obconic or cylindric, narrowed near middle or not.
Fruit: open at top irregularly by tears where style falls off, within persistent sepals.
Seed: ± 1 mm, angular- fusiform.
4 species: w North America. (Greek: Githago -like) [Morin 1983 Syst Bot 8:436–468] Width in length-to-width ratios of corollas (or ovaries) measured at tube (or ovary) tops.
Plant glabrous to hairy.
Stem: erect, 4–40 cm.
Leaf: 3–20 mm.
Inflorescence: bracts 2–15 mm, lanceolate, 2–30 mm apart.
Flower: pedicel 0–10 mm; sepals 2 × ovary; corolla 7–24 mm, 1–1.5 × longer than wide, narrowly to widely bell-shaped, lobes < to > tube, light violet to deep blue; filament base wide, ciliate; ovary 2.5–10.5 mm, cylindric to narrowly obconic, 2–5 × longer than wide, base long- tapered, top round, ribs 10, equal, style 4–12 mm, distal 66–90% papillate.
n=10. [Online Interchange]
Stem: 4–25 cm; upper branches 2–6 cm; hairs fine or 0.
Leaf: 3.5–9 mm.
Inflorescence: bracts 5–15 mm apart.
Flower: pedicel 0–10 mm; corolla 7–13 mm, 4–8 mm wide at sinus, narrowly bell-shaped, lobes 3–6 mm, light to deep blue-violet; ovary 2.5–5.5 mm, obconic, shallowly ribbed in fruit, style 5–9 mm, 0.2–0.6 mm wide, distal 70–80% papillate.
Serpentine, similar outcrops, and Ione Formation; 300–640 m. n&c Sierra Nevada Foothills.
Previous taxon: Githopsis pulchella var. pulchella
Next taxon: Githopsis specularioides
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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