Habit: Annual, glabrous.
Leaf: basal, cauline, opposite.
Inflorescence: terminal, sometimes also subterminal cymes; pedicels generally < subtending internode.
Flower: parts generally in 5s; calyx tube < lobes; corolla < 2 cm, narrow-funnel-shaped, lobes spreading, < tube, entire, with fringes on adaxial surface near base, nectary pits 0 (nectaries on lower corolla tube); ovary sessile; style +- 0, stigmas 2, persistent.
Species In Genus: +- 275 species: +- worldwide, especially temperate to alpine, except Africa.
Etymology: (Latin: little
Gentiana)
Jepson eFlora Author: James S. Pringle
Reference: Nesom 1991 Phytologia 70:1--20
Unabridged Reference: Gillett 1957 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 44:195--269; Nesom 1991 Phytologia 70:1--20.Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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