Violaceae

The family of the Violacées is a family of plants Dicotylédones which includes/understands 800 Espèce S into 20 kind S:

  • Acentra, Agatea, Alexis, Amphirrhox, Anchietea, Corynostylis, Decorsella, Fusispermum, Gloeospermum, Hybanthus, Isodendrion, Leonia, Melicytus, Noisettia, Orthion, Paypayrola, Rinorea, Rinoreocarpus, Schweiggeria, Violated .

They are trees, shrubs, plants herbaceous, perennial or annual, rhizomateuses, with alternate sheets, often in basal tufts, with irregular solitary flower with 5 free petals, the inferiors forming a spur with the back. It is a cosmopolitan family of the cold areas to tropical.

In France, it is represented only by the following kinds:

  • Viola they are the thought violets and


- The violets are not very particularistic from the point of view of the habitat.

- The generic name is the Latin traditional name of the violet

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