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Schweiggeria is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with one or two species, found in eastern Brazil.

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  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderMalpighiales
  5. FamilyViolaceae
Native toBrazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Mexico Gulf

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Schweiggeria is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with one or two species, found in eastern Brazil.

== Description == Shrubs, with oblanceolate (wider near tip) leaves. White flowers are strongly zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical), rarely solitary, in axillary fascicles, with caducous corolla with the bottom petal longer than the others and clawed with a well exserted spur. The stamens have free filaments, with the two lowest being calcarate (spurred).They also possess a large dorsal connective appendage that is entire and oblong-ovate. In the gynoecium, the style is rostellate (beaked) or lobed. The fruit is a thick-walled capsule with three obovoid seeds per carpel.

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