Flora of North America species comparison

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Angelonia

angelon
Habit Herbs, annual or perennial.
Stems

erect, hairy [glabrous].
Leaves

cauline, opposite [alternate distally];

petiole absent;

blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins serrate to subentire [entire].
Inflorescences

terminal, racemes [thyrses or flowers solitary];

bracts present.
Pedicels

present;

bracteoles absent [present].
Flowers

bisexual;

sepals 5, basally connate, calyx slightly bilaterally symmetric, campanulate to rotate, lobes lanceolate;

corolla purple, mauve, or white, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate, short-tubular [globular], not spurred, tube with a pair of rounded sacs at base of median lobe abaxially, lobes 5, abaxial 3, adaxial 2, adaxial lip with concave palate at base containing a cylindric, 2-fid tooth [ridge];

stamens 4, basally adnate to corolla, didynamous, filaments glandular-hairy [glabrous];

staminode 0;

ovary 2-locular, placentation axile;

stigma punctiform.
Fruits

capsules, dehiscence loculicidal.
Seeds

10–50, light brown to brown, prismatic, wings absent.
x

= 10.

Angelonia
Distribution
from USDA
Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced, Fla.; introduced also in Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 25 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 15. Authors: Kerry A. Barringer, Neil A. Harriman†.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae
Subordinate taxa
A. gardneri
Name authority Bonpland: in A. von Humboldt and A. J. A. Bonpland, Pl. Aequinoct. 2: 92, plate 108. (1812)
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