Mentzelia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Loasaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Erect or straggling herbs, with entire, lobed or pinnatifid leaves, and terminal, cymose or solitary flowers. Calyx-tube cylindric, linear or clubshaped, the limb usually 5-lobed. Petals 5, convolute in the bud, spreading, deciduous. Stames 20-100. Ovary 1-celled; styles 3, more or less united; stigmas small, obtuse. Capsule dehiscent at the summit, few-many-seeded. Seeds mostly prismatic, rough or striate. [In honor of C. Mentzel, a German botanist, died 1701.] About 35 species, natives of America. Type species: Mentzelia aspera L.