Galax

Sims

Bot. Mag. 20: plate 754. 1804, name conserved ,.

Common names: Beetleweed wand-flower
Etymology: Greek gala, milk, presumably alluding to flower color
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 333. Mentioned on page 332, 334.
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Galax
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Herbs, colonial, scapose, rhizomatous; rhizome slender, scale-leaved, slightly lignescent. Stems erect, unbranched. Leaves basal or rosulate at rhizome tips, 80–350 mm; petiole present; blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, margins finely dentate-serrate, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous, subpalmately veined. Scapes ebracteate, barely elongating after flowering. Inflorescences compact racemes. Flowers: sepals barely connate proximally; petals distinct nearly to base, corolla urceolate, 3.5–8 mm, lobes white, margins entire; anthers 1-locular, without basal spurs, transversely dehiscent; filaments and staminodes connate basally, forming coronalike tube adnate to corolla base, free distally; staminodes present. x = 6.

Distribution

e United States

Discussion

Species 1: e United States.

Prior to 1972, the single species of Galax was known as G. aphylla Linnaeus; the type of that name was shown by R. K. Brummitt (1972) to represent a species of Nemophila (Hydrophyllaceae). Because Galax Linnaeus 1753 was based on the Nemophila type, the later name Galax Sims has been conserved.

Species 1

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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obtuse;rounded +
Guy L. Nesom +
dentate-serrate +  and entire +
broadly ovate;orbiculate +
Beetleweed +  and wand-flower +
urceolate +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
e United States +
straight;curved +
Greek gala, milk, presumably alluding to flower color +
free +, adnate +  and connate +
loculicidal +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
entire +  and dentate-serrate +
tenuinucellate +, bitegmic +  and hemitropous +
amphitropous +, campylotropous +  and anatropous +
distinct +
lignescent +
elongating +
cylindric +
epipetalous +  and antisepalous +
free +, adnate +  and connate +
spatulate +  and scale-like +
prostrate +, decumbent +  and creeping +
slightly 3-lobed;unlobed +
Diapensiaceae +
coronalike +
rhizomatous +  and scapose +
evergreen +  and perennial +
herb +  and colonial +