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7. Anagallis L., Sp. Pl. ed. 1.148. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5.73.1754; Duby in DC., Prodr. 8:69. 1844; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:6.1879; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3:505.1882; Pax & Knuth in Engler, Pflanzenr. 22 (iv.237):321.1905; Gorshkova in Schischkin & Bob-Fl. URSS. 18:275-276.1952; P. Taylor, in Hubbard and Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, 10.1958; G. Singh & P. Kachroo, For. Fl. Srinagar, 180. 1976.
YASIN J. NASIR
Centunculus L.Micropyxis Duby
Annual or perennials. Stem erect to procumbent or decumbent; diffuse. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers solitary axillary, red (or shades of it), blue, rarely white. Corolla rotate or funnel shaped, the lobes variously incised at the apex and fringed with glands or not. Pyxidium globose, operculate. Seeds many, angled, vesiculose.
A cosmopolitan genus comprising of c. 28 species distributed mainly in north & tropical Africa. Represented in Pakistan by one species and two varieties.
Lower Taxa
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