Eustoma

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Gentianaceae

• Scientific Name

  Eustoma

• Description

  Description - Glabrous, often glaucous, annual herbs, with opposite, sessile or clasping, entire leaves. Flowers large, blue, purple or white, long-peduncled. Calyx deeply 5-6-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, keeled. Corolla deeply 5-6- lobed, the lobes oblong or obovate, convolute in the bud. Stamens 5-6, inserted on the throat of the corolla; filaments filiform; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary 1-celled; stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 2-valved. Seeds small, numerous, foveolate. [Greek, open-mouth, referring to the corolla.] Four or five species, natives of the southern United States, Mexico and the West Indies. Type species: Eustoma silenifolium Salisb.