| Gentiana detensa Rottb. | |||
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| Family | Gentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gentianopsis detonsa (Rottb.) Malte. | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stem strict, erect, unbranched or with basal branches 10-20 cm tall; rosette leaves oblong-ovate, persistent in flowering time; stem leaves 1-2 pairs, linear-lanceolate, acute; flowers tetramerous; calyx lobes uneven, the shorter broader than the longer; corolla blue, up to 40 mm long, the lobes dentate in apex and sometimes fringed on sides; capsule stipitate. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows along the sea. Described from Iceland. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.