Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Verbenaceae
Verbenaceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls sympetalous, hypogynous, mostly perfect; cal (2)4–5(–7)-lobed, sometimes irregular; cor salverform or funnelform, mostly 4–5-lobed, ± irregular in most genera, sometimes bilabiate; stamens (2)4(5), inserted on the cor-tube; ovary typically bicarpellate and with 4 uniovulate chambers, shallowly 4-lobed and separating in fr into 4 nutlets, but varying in diverse genera, sometimes with only 2 uniovulate chambers and ripening into 2 nutlets, or ripening into a drupe with 2 or 4 stones, and in Phryma unilocular and uniovulate, ripening into an achene; style terminal, or often arising between the 4 short distal lobes of the ovary, the stigma often unequally bilobed; embryo with 2 cotyledons; endosperm mostly wanting; herbs or woody plants, usually not aromatic, with mostly 4-angled stems and opposite, exstipulate lvs. (Phrymaceae) 100/2600, mostly of warm regions.
Family Description - Fls sympetalous, hypogynous, mostly perfect; cal (2)4–5(–7)-lobed, sometimes irregular; cor salverform or funnelform, mostly 4–5-lobed, ± irregular in most genera, sometimes bilabiate; stamens (2)4(5), inserted on the cor-tube; ovary typically bicarpellate and with 4 uniovulate chambers, shallowly 4-lobed and separating in fr into 4 nutlets, but varying in diverse genera, sometimes with only 2 uniovulate chambers and ripening into 2 nutlets, or ripening into a drupe with 2 or 4 stones, and in Phryma unilocular and uniovulate, ripening into an achene; style terminal, or often arising between the 4 short distal lobes of the ovary, the stigma often unequally bilobed; embryo with 2 cotyledons; endosperm mostly wanting; herbs or woody plants, usually not aromatic, with mostly 4-angled stems and opposite, exstipulate lvs. (Phrymaceae) 100/2600, mostly of warm regions.
Common Names:
The vervain family
The vervain family