GLOBULARIACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 282

CLV. GLOBULARIACEAE 1

Perennial herbs or small shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate or in rosettes. Flowers 5-merous, zygomorphic, in dense capitula surrounded by an involucre. Corolla usually blue. Stamens 4, rarely 2. Ovary 1-locular; ovule 1, pendent. Fruit dry, enclosed in the persistent calyx.

Literature: O. Schwarz, Bot. Jahrb. 69: 318-373 (1938).