Genus: Cerinthe
Genus description:
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, glabrous or glabrescent but often with white tubercles, usually glaucous. Flowers in terminal, usually branched, bracteate cymes. Calyx lobed to half-way or more. Corolla yellow, usually tingd withe violet or red, more or less tubular, with 5 erect or recurved lobes; lobes shorter than or as long as rest of corolla, without scales. Stamens included or slightly exserted, inserted at about middle of corolla; anthers appendiculate at base. Style usually exterted; stigma capitate or emarginate. Nutlets coonate in 2 separate pairs, each pair ovoid, slightly beaked, dark brown or black, with a flat base
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