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Bergenia Moench, Meth. 664. 1974. C.B. Clarke in Hook.f.,Fl.Brit.Ind.2:398.1878: Bailey, Stand.Cyclop. Hort.6:3086.1917; Loz.-Lozinsk.in Kom.,Fl.URSS. 9:136.1939; Webb in Tutin et al.,Fl.Eur. 1:380.1964; Yeo in Kew Bull.20,1:113.1966/67; Sch.-Tem. in Rech.f.,Fl.Iran.42:14-16.1967.
Megasea Haw.
Perennial herbs up to 50 cm tall, succulent. Rhizome woody, covered with leaf bases. Leaves mostly basal, rosulate, coriaceous, glandular-punctate, alternate, bases sheathing. Scape thick with a showy racemose or corymbose inflorescence. Flowers pentamerous, hypanthium cupuliform, free from the carpels. Sepals 5, erect. Stamens 10. Carpels 2(-3); ovary superior; styles persistent, divergent. Capsule bi- or tri-locular, many-seeded, dehiscing longitudinally between the styles. Seeds elongate, smooth or minutely tuberculate.
A genus of c. 6 species distributed in the temperate Himalayas and C. & E. Asia. Represented here by 2 species.
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Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate; base cuneate;
margin crenate, dentate or serrate |
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Bergenia stracheyi |
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Leaves orbicular to suborbicular or sometimes broadly obovate, base rounded or sometimes cordate;
margin entire to denticulate |
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Bergenia ciliata |
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