Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nyctaginaceae of Nevada
Annual or perennial herbs; stems usually with swollen nodes; leaves opposite (in ours), without stipules; flowers perfect, often subtended by bracts forming a calyx-like involucre; perianth simple, corolla-like, campanulate or funnelform; stamens single to many; pistil single with a l-celled ovary, surrounded by the perianth-tube; fruit indehiscent.
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