Genus: Phyteuma
Genus description:
Perennial herbs. Stock thick, fleshy. Stem simple, leafy. Laves undivided. Inflorescence solitary, usually densely capitate or spicate, subtended by an involucre of often conspicious bracts. Flowers sessile or subsessile, (4-)5-merous, solitar in axiles of bracteoles. Corolla deeply lobed; lobes narowly linear, at first coherent in the upper 1/3, later patent. Filaments greatly widened at base. Stigma 2-3(-4). Capsule globose, dehiscing by 2-3 pores near the middle.
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