Lobelia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Campanulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbs (some tropical species shrubs) , with alternate or basal leaves, and racemose spicate or paniculate, often leafy-braeted, red yellow blue or white flowers. Calyx-tube turbinate, hemispheric or ovoid, adnate to the ovary. Corolla-tube straight, oblique, or incurved, divided to the base on one side, 2-lipped in our species, the lobe on each side of the cleft erect or recurved, turned away from the other 3 which are somewhat united. Stamens free from the corolla-tube, monadelphous, at least above, 2 or all the 5 anthers with a tuft of hairs at the tips, 3 of them usually larger than the other 2, all united into a tube or ring around the style. Ovary 2-celled, the 2 placentae manyovuled; stigma 2-lobed or 2-cleft. Capsule loculieidally 2-valved. [Named after Matthias de L'Obel, 1538-1616, a Flemish botanist.] About 250 species of wide geographic distribution. Type species: Lobelia Dortmanna L.