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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
Herbs, sometimes vines, shrubs or trees, with opposite leaves, simple, pinnate venation, exstipulate. Variable inflorescences, with bilateral flowers, often with large, colorful bracts and bracteoles; 5 connate sepals/5 connate petals, 4 didynamous stamens, with filaments adnate to corolla. Superior ovary, 2 fused carpels, with axile placentation. Fruit an explosively dehiscent capsule with a funicle that is modified into a retinacula (a hook-shaped stalk that flings seed out).
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Henrya insularis
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Hygrophila ciliata
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Hygrophila corymbosa
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Hygrophila costata
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Hygrophila difformis
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Hygrophila lacustris
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Hygrophila polysperma
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Hygrophila stricta
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Hypoestes aristata
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Hypoestes phyllostachya
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Justicia adenothyrsa
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Justicia americana
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Justicia angusta
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Justicia betonica
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Justicia brandegeeana
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Justicia californica
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Justicia candicans
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Justicia comata
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Justicia crassifolia
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Justicia culebritae
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Justicia furcata
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Justicia glauca
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Justicia lanceolata
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Justicia longii
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Justicia martinsoniana
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Justicia mirabiloides
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Justicia ovata
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Justicia pacifica
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Justicia parviflora
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Justicia pectoralis
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Justicia periplocifolia
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Justicia pilosella
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Justicia pringlei
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Justicia runyonii
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Justicia sessilis
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Justicia sonorae
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Justicia sphaerosperma
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Justicia spicigera
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Justicia turneri
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Justicia warnockii
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Justicia wrightii
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Lepidagathis alopecuroidea
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Lepidagathis dulcis
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Nelsonia canescens
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Odontonema cuspidatum
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Odontonema tubiforme
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Oplonia acicularis
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Oplonia microphylla
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Oplonia spinosa
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Pachystachys spicata
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