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Cynoglossum apenninum

(Cynoglossum apenninum)

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Description

They are perennial herbs rarely annual or biannual, with thickened subterranean organs, usually branched, hairy or rarely glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, basal with conspicuous petioles, leaves usually sessile. Inflorescences in clusters or panicles, the scorpioid branches, generally ebracted. Bisexual flowers, usually pedicelled; sepals 5, free almost to the base, acres in fruiting; corolla blue, purple, or rarely white, hypocraterimorphic to campanulate, 5-lobate, with 5 apparent bumps in the mouth; stamens 5, the anthers on short filaments or almost sessile, oblong to ellipsoidal; ovary 4-lobado, the gynobasic style, the capped stigma. Fruits formed by 4 patented nutlets, apically joined to the ginobase,

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Boraginales
Family:Boraginaceae
Genus:Cynoglossum
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