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Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, rarely slightly shrubby. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, toothed, lobed or divided. Calyx teeth of equal length. Corolla campanulate to funnel- or salver-shaped. Stamens 5, attached at the same height on the corolla tube. Capsule 3-valved, rupturing the calyx when mature. Derivation of name: named after the Spanish botanist Felipe Luis Gil of the latter half of the 18th century Worldwide: 25 species in NW and W North America Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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