Campanulaceae

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  Lobelia

  1a. Corolla zygomorphic [Figs. 539,540]; stamens connate
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  1b. Corolla actinomorphic [Figs. 536,537]; stamens distinct or connate only at base
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    Triodanis

    2a. Flowers and fruits solitary, sessile or subsessile in the axils of leaves [Fig. 541]; capsules slender-cylindric; plants annual
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    2b. Flowers and fruits solitary or borne in a spike, raceme, or glomerule, sessile or pedicellate [Figs. 534,536,537]; capsules globose or ovoid to obovoid or obconic; plants perennial
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      Jasione

      3a. Corolla slenderly tubular, cleft into 5 lobes; anthers connate at base; capsule dehiscing by 2 apical valves; inflorescence a dense, capitulum-like umbel that is subtended by a foliaceous involucre [Fig. 538]
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      3b. Corolla ± campanulate (narrow-campanulate in one species of Campanula); anthers distinct; capsule dehiscing by basal, lateral, or subapical pores; inflorescence open and not congested (congested in Campanula glomerata)
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        Gadellia

        4a. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of primarily erect to ascending flowers [Fig. 537]
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        Campanula

        4b. Inflorescece of solitary pedicellate flowers, or of sessile glomerulate flowers, or a spike or raceme, the flowers spreading to nodding or erect [Figs. 533,534,535]

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