Turnera
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Turneraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Herbs or low shrubs, with toothed leaves and solitary axillary yellow flowers, the peduncles often adnate to the petioles. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals obovate to spatulate, borne on the calyx-throat. Stamens borne below the petals, sometimes hypogynous. Ovary sessile; styles filiform; stigmas several many- cleft. Capsule 3-valved to the base, mostly many-seeded, the seeds borne near the middle of the valves, oblong or eylindric, curved, the aril narrow. [In honor of William Turner, herbalist, the "Father of English Botany," died 1568.] About 75 species, nearly all of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Turnera ulmifolia L.