Primulaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Primulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs, with perfect regular flowers. Calyx free from the ovary (adnate to its lower part in Samolus), usually 5-parted, persistent or rarely deciduous. Corolla gamopetalous in our species, usually 5-cleft, deciduous. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite them, hypogynous or rarely perigynous, inserted on the corolla; filaments distinct or connate at the base; anthers introrse, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally debiscent. Disk obsolete, or none. Ovary superior (partly inferior in Samolus), 1-celled; placenta central, free; ovules anatropous, or amphitropous; style 1; stigma simple, mostly capitate, entire. Capsule 1-celled, 2-6-valved, rarely circumscissile or indehiscent. Seeds few or several, the testa adherent to the fleshy or horny copious endosperm; embryo small, straight; cotyledons obtuse. About 28 genera and 400 species of wide distribution.