Adenocarpus Dc.

Adénocarpe (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Much-branched shrubs, with silky or villous indumentum. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. Stipules small and caducous or absent. Inflorescence terminal, racemose. Calyx 2-lipped, with the upper lip deeply bifid and the lower tridentate or 3-lobed. Standard suborbicular, slightly longer than the obovate or oblong wings; keel much incurved or shortly beaked. Stamens all joined into a closed tube; anthers alternately long and short. Ovary sessile, many-ovulate. Pod linear-oblong, compressed, dehiscent, many-seeded, glandular-tuberculate or muricate. Seeds mostly oblong-ovate in outline, compressed, smooth, with a small hilum; rim-aril inconspicuous.
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Corolla usually yellow, with petals shortly clawed; standard subcircular, as long as or longer than the wings; wings obovate or oblong; keel incurved.
Much-branched shrubs or small trees, with silky or villous indumentum; branching alternate.
Calyx valvate in bud, 2-lipped, the upper lip deeply bifid, the lower 3-lobed or 3-dentate.
Leaves petiolate, digitately 3-foliolate; stipules usually small and caducous or absent.
Pod oblong, compressed, dehiscent, glandular-tuberculate or muricate, usually villous.
Stamens all joined into a closed tube; anthers alternately long and short.
Seeds ovate-oblong in outline, smooth with a small aril.
Inflorescence terminal, racemose or capitate.
Ovary sessile, multi-ovulate.
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