Familia Stylidiaceae

STYLIDIACEAE

Morphological description

Herbs, usually glandular hairy.

Leaves

Leaves simple, entire, alternate, exstipulate.

Inflorescence

Inflorescence.

Flowers

Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, calyx and corolla 5-lobed, stamens 2, ovary inferior, usually ovary 2-celled.

Fruit

Fruit a capsule, many-seeded.

Seed

Seeds many.

Different from: Scrophulariaceae: leaves opposite, ovary superior. 

Distribution: The family is almost confined to Australia, New Zealand and southern South America. In Malesia only Stylidium, mostly in wet open localities.

Notes: notes.

Literature: D.F. van Slooten, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1954) 529- 532.

Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Stylidium 92.

Illustrations: Fig. 171. Stylidium inconspicuum Sloot. (Stylidiaceae). Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 4 (1954) 530, fig. 1.

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