STYLIDIACEAE
Morphological description
Herbs, usually glandular hairy.
Leaves
Leaves simple, entire, alternate, exstipulate.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence.
Flowers
Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, calyx and corolla 5-lobed, stamens 2, ovary inferior, usually ovary 2-celled.
Fruit
Fruit a capsule, many-seeded.
Seed
Seeds many.
Different from: Scrophulariaceae: leaves opposite, ovary superior.
Distribution: The family is almost confined to Australia, New Zealand and southern South America. In Malesia only Stylidium, mostly in wet open localities.
Notes: notes.
Literature: D.F. van Slooten, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1954) 529- 532.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Stylidium 92.
Illustrations: Fig. 171. Stylidium inconspicuum Sloot. (Stylidiaceae). Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 4 (1954) 530, fig. 1.
Image in PhytoImages for Stylidiaceae