Wahlenbergia

Wahlengeria stricta

The Moor bells ( Wahlenbergia formerly also Lightfootia ) are a genus of 260 species comprising the family of the bellflower family ( Campanulaceae ).

Description

Moor bells are annual or perennial herbaceous plants, subshrubs or shrubs. The leaves are occasionally against constantly and are then usually sessile and stem- constantly, but usually they are in a basal rosette, rarely they are also heather -like.

The flowers are small to medium in size, can be stalked or sessile, standing or terminal in the axils and are available individually or in thyrsi, panicles or clusters. Very rare flowers of the bracts are surrounded. The calyx is usually fünfzählig, but it can be three to sechszählig. The crown is bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, rarely tubular, urn- shaped or wheel-shaped. The color is usually blue or white, rarely pink. The most five (rarely three to seven) Corolla lobe are much shorter to much longer than the corolla tube. The stamens of the best five ( rarely three or four) stamens stand alone and separated from each other at the base they are widened. The anthers are inclined together. The pollen grains are (rarely two to five) provided with three pores, and usually prickly. The ovary is two to fünffächrig and rarely upper constant. Each ovary compartment contains few to many seeds.

The fruit is a capsule divided into compartments that springs open from the tip with two to five flaps.

Systematics and distribution

Within the genus approximately 260 species can be distinguished. The occurrence of the species is located in the southern hemisphere ( circumaustral ).

Selection of species:

Asterids Ovary (botany)
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