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Scrophulariaceae

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Scrophulariaceae A family of dicotyledonous (Dicotyledoneae) herbs, with a few shrubs and trees. It shows great variation, but all its members have more or less irregular flowers, usually distinctly 2-lipped, or sometimes with flat corollas with 4 unequal lobes (e.g. Veronica). There are usually 4 stamens, rarely 5 (e.g. Verbascum and Penstemon), or sometimes only 2 (e.g. Veronica). The ovary is distinctive. It is superior, of 2 cells joined together, with axile placentation and a terminal style that is simple or bilobed. The fruit is normally a capsule, rarely a berry, and the seeds are numerous in each capsule cell. Genera such as Antirrhinum, Calceolaria, Digitalis, Mimulus, Verbascum, and Veronica have flowers attractive enough to be garden favourites, and Digitalis (foxglove) is the source of an important heart stimulant, but otherwise the family is of little economic importance. There are 222 genera, with about 4500 species, of cosmopolitan distribution.

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