Annual or perennial herbs (in ours), with milky latex. Stipules 0. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite or whorled, usually simple. Inflorescence racemose or flowers solitary. Bracts present, usually with 2 bracteoles. Flowers bisexual (rarely unisexual), zygomorphic, 5-merous, sometimes resupinate. Petals united into a tube (sometimes splitting on the back), sometimes ± free, sometimes 2-lipped, rarely 1-lipped. Ovary ± inferior, rarely superior, (1-)2-10-locular. Style 1. Fruit a capsule (in ours). |
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