View source for Gentiana autumnalis

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|accepted_name=Gentiana autumnalis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cat. Edwards’s Nat. Hist.,
|place=11. 1776
|year=1776
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|common_names=Pine-barren gentian
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dasystephana porphyrio
|authority=(J. F. Gmelin) Small
|rank=species
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|name=Gentiana porphyrio
|authority=J. F. Gmelin
|rank=species
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|name=G. stoneana
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Gentiana;Gentiana autumnalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gentiana]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gentiana autumnalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, 1.5–5.5 dm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> 1(–3), terminal from caudex, decumbent to erect. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, gradually more distantly spaced distally; blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 2–10 cm × 0.5–5 mm, apex obtuse (proximal leaves) to acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, occasionally also terminating 1 or 2 branches, not subtended by bracts. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 17–40(–53) mm, lobes linear, 10–25(–36) mm, margins not ciliate; corolla deep blue with greenish yellow dots adaxially on lobes or occasionally rose-violet or white, funnelform, open, 30–65 mm, lobes spreading, widely ovate, 10–20 mm, free portions of plicae shallowly to deeply divided into 2 subequal, lacerate, attenuate segments; anthers distinct. <b>Seeds</b> winged. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall–early winter (southward).
|habitat=Moist meadows, pine barrens.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Gentiana autumnalis is believed to have been extirpated long ago from Delaware and Maryland.</p><!--
--><p>Variation in the number of floral parts, from four to seven per whorl, is more frequent in Gentiana autumnalis than in the other species of Gentiana in the flora area.</p><!--
--><p>There is a record of a hybrid of Gentiana autumnalis with the highly dissimilar G. villosa in North Carolina.</p>
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name=Gentiana autumnalis
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dasystephana porphyrio;Gentiana porphyrio;G. stoneana
|basionyms=
|family=Gentianaceae
|phenology=Flowering fall–early winter (southward).
|habitat=Moist meadows, pine barrens.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=N.J.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cat. Edwards’s Nat. Hist.,
|publication year=1776
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=
|genus=Gentiana
|species=Gentiana autumnalis
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