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3. Campanula L., Sp. P. 163. 1753. Gen. Pl. 218.1754; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Lnd. 3:438. 1881; deCandolle, A Monographie des Campanulees, 1. 384. 1830; Federov in Schischkin, Fl. URSS. 24: 134. 1957; Rech.f. & Schim.-Czeika in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 13:7. 1965.
E. NASIR
Plants perennial or annual, erect trailing or decumbent, glabrous, pubescent, or hirsute. Leaves simple, alternate or forming rosettes at the base. Inflorescence 1-many flowered, with racemes or spikes. Flowers blue to purple or white. Sepals 5, with or without reflexed appendages between lobes; calyx tube adnate to the ovary, segments 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate, funnel-shaped or tubular. Stamens 5, free, filaments dilated at the base. Ovary 3-locular; style cylindrical; stigmas 3. Fruit a capsule, elongated to ovoid, obovoid or round, with membran¬ous walls; dehiscence by irregular pores at the bases or the sides. Seeds minute, numerous.
A genus of over 300 species, mostly in the temperate regions. Represented in Pakistan by c.15 species.
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Style as long or shorter than corolla |
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Style exserted beyond the lobes of the corolla |
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Plants sparsely hairy. Corolla campanulate, glabrous |
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1 Campanula staintonii |
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Plants hirsute. Corolla tubular, hairy outside |
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2 Campanula leucantha |
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Plants up to 40 cm tall, not caespitose. Stems glabrous to slightly hirsute, white |
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3 Campanula leucoclada |
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Plants c. 10 cm tall, caespitose. Stems hirsute, not white |
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4 Campanula polyclada |
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Cauline leaves linear, 1 -5 cm long |
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Leaves lanceolate to ovate or oval, 5 mm to 12 cm long |
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Radical leaves spathulate, cauline linear. Flower single, terminal. Capsule dehiscence towards the top |
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5 Campanula aristata |
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All leaves linear. Inflorescence a branched raceme. Capsule dehiscence towards the base |
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Plants pubescent. Flowers c. 1.3 cm long. Calyx segments c. 5 mm long, not split to the base. Ribs of the sepals not prominent at the base |
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6 Campanula sylvatica |
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Plants almost glabrous. Flowers c. 2 cm long, Calyx segments c. 1 cm long, split almost to the base. Ribs of the sepals swollen at the base |
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7 Campanula sulaimanii |
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Plants erect, densely hirsute. Flowers in clustered branched racemes |
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8 Campanula benthamii |
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Plants erect or not, glabrous, hirsute, strigose or pubescent. Flowers in lax racemes, not in clusters |
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Plants hirsute to strigose or hoary pubescent. Flowers small, less than 1 cm long |
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Plants glabrous to hirsute or pubescent. Flowers up to 5 cm long |
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Leaves narrow lanceolate, 5-15 mm long. Flowers numerous at tips of branches, 5-8 mm long. Capsule narrowed at the base |
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10 Campanula tenuissima |
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Leaves ovate to oblong, 5-50 mm long, hirsute to densely white pubescent. Flowers 3-5 mm long. Capsule rounded at the base |
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Plants erect. Leaves 15-30 mm, hirsute, Flowers 3-5 mm long |
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11 Campanula tristis |
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Plants procumbent. Leaves 5-10 mm, densely white pubescent, margin crenate. Flowers c.5 mm long |
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13 Campanula argyrotricha |
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Plants erect; up to 1 m tall. Stem glabrous Flowers up to 5 cm long |
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9 Campanula latifolia |
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Plants erect, less than 1 m tall or procumbent to straggling; hirsute or densely white hoary pubescent |
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Plants densely hoary, tomentose. Flowers up to 2 cm long |
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12 Campanula cashmeriana |
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Plants hirsute. Flowers up to 1 cm long |
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Plants procumbent. Flowers up to 3 mm long. Petals absent. Calyx teeth minute |
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14 Campanula alsinoides |
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Plants erect to procumbent. Flowers 1 cm long. Corolla campanulate. Calyx teeth prominent |
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15 Campanula pallida |
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