Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Polygalaceae
Polygalaceae
Description:
Description - Herbs or shrubs. Flowers racemose, spicate or capitate, rarely solitary and axillary, sometimes also cleistogamous and subterranean. Sepals very unequal, the two lateral ones (wings) large and petaloid. Petals 3, united into a tube which is split on the back, and more or less adnate to the stamens. Stamens 8 or 6, monadelphous below, or diadelphous; capsule membranous, compressed, dehiscent along the margin. Seeds 1 in each cavity, generally hairy. [Greek, much milk.] A genus of about 450 species, of wide distribution. Type species: Polygala vulgaris L. The following descriptions were contributed by Dr. J. K. Small.
Description - Herbs or shrubs. Flowers racemose, spicate or capitate, rarely solitary and axillary, sometimes also cleistogamous and subterranean. Sepals very unequal, the two lateral ones (wings) large and petaloid. Petals 3, united into a tube which is split on the back, and more or less adnate to the stamens. Stamens 8 or 6, monadelphous below, or diadelphous; capsule membranous, compressed, dehiscent along the margin. Seeds 1 in each cavity, generally hairy. [Greek, much milk.] A genus of about 450 species, of wide distribution. Type species: Polygala vulgaris L. The following descriptions were contributed by Dr. J. K. Small.