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|accepted_name=Halenia
|accepted_authority=Borkhausen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Arch. Bot. (Leipzig)
|place=1(1): 25. 1796
|year=1796
}}
|common_names=Spurred gentian
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Halenia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Halenia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Jonas Petersson Halenius, 1727–1810, Swedish physician and student of Linnaeus
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual [perennial], chlorophyllous, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, opposite [whorled], sessile, basal and proximal cauline sometimes ± petiolate. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymes (often umbelloid) or thyrses. <b>Flowers</b> 4-merous; calyx lobed nearly to base; corolla yellow or pale green to violet [white], campanulate or ± ovoid and scarcely opening, glabrous, lobes longer than tube, margins entire or nearly so, with 4 spurs, 1 diverging from tube below each lobe [merely protuberance], plicae between lobes absent; stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers distinct; ovary sessile; style persistent, erect, short or indistinct; stigmas 2; nectaries at ends of spurs, 1 in each spur. <b>Capsules</b> compressed-ovoid. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;temperate to alpine areas.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Halenia brevicornis (Kunth) G. Don, a widespread neotropical species, occurs in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, and should be sought in pine woods and along arroyos in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Corollas pale green to violet; spurs proximally divergent at ca. 45°, 3–5 mm (occasionally absent on small plants).
|[[Halenia deflexa|Halenia deflexa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corollas yellow; spurs proximally nearly horizontal, (3–)5–8(–16) mm.
|[[Halenia rothrockii|Halenia rothrockii]]
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name=Halenia
|author=James S. Pringle
|authority=Borkhausen
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Gentianaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;temperate to alpine areas.
|reference=None
|publication title=Arch. Bot. (Leipzig)
|publication year=1796
|special status=
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|genus=Halenia
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