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Perennial carnivorous evergreen shrubs with secondary growth, or annual or ephemeral herbs. Rootstock a woody caudex or indistinct, roots fibrous. Stems perennial and branched, short-lived and elongating at flowering from branched subterranean shoots, erect, scrambling or floating. Leaves cauline, alternate, estipulate, subulatelinear, with insect-trapping, mucilage-secreting glandular hairs and a small, knob-like apical swelling. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, hermaphrodite, medium-sized and showy, calyx and corolla well developed; perianth actinomorphic, 5-merous, calyx connate basally, imbricate, persistent, corolla connate basally, appearing free, rotate, cerise to pale lilac, rarely white, underside pale lilac, white or yellow; limb 5-lobed; lobes imbricate in bud; stamens five, opposite the sepals, inserted at the base of the tube; filaments free, twisted to make the anthers face abaxially and the flower zygomorphic; anthers basifixed, 2- thecate, 4-sporangiate, introrse, opening by porelike, short apical slits.
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Conran, J.G., Carolin, R. (2004). Byblidaceae. In: Kadereit, J.W. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18617-2_4
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