Ruta
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Ruta (classical name of rue). Rutaceae. Perennial, glandular, punctate herbs, hardy or half-hardy North, quite hardy South but of no great horticultural value. Plants often woody at the base, with terete branched sts.: lvs. alternate, simple, 3-foliate, pinnately cut or compound: fls. in leafy-bracted terminal corymbs or panicles, numerous, yellow or greenish; calyx short, persistent, 4-5-lobed or parted; petals 4-5, limb arched, often dentate or ciliate; stamens 8-10; ovary sessile: caps. 4-5-lobed, the lobes indehiscent or dehiscent at the apex. About 40 species mostly in the Medit. region and a few in W. and Cent. Asia.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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