Common Names - Primrose Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - Batsch ex. Borkh. | Total Number of genera - 24 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 1000 |
Plant forms - Mostly herbs, rarely sub-shrubs | |
World Distribution - Sub-cosmopolitan, esp. N. hemisphere. Frigid zone to tropical. Widespread, but centred in the North temperate. | |
Comments - Herbs, rarely sub-shrubby |
1 - Coris. 2 - Lysimachia. |