Sullivantia

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Saxifragaceae

• Scientific Name

  Sullivantia

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls perfect, regular, partly epigynous with a prolonged, deeply cupulate hypanthium bearing the sep, pet, and stamens at its margin; pet obovate or spatulate, marcescent-persistent; stamens 5, opposite and much shorter than the sep; carpels 2, connate below to form a bilocular ovary with numerous ovules on axile placentas, tapering above into the prominent distinct stylar beaks that eventually dehisce ventrally; stigmas capitate; capsule largely contained within the persistent hypanthium; seeds narrowly winged; fibrous-rooted perennial herbs with largely basal, long-petioled, ± stipulate, reniform or reniform-orbicular, palmately veined, shallowly lobulate and toothed lvs and cymose panicles of small white fls. 3, N. Amer.