Eminia Taub.

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Erect or climbing herbs or subshrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, petiolate; stipules and stipels small. Flowers in axillary false racemes, those at the ends of the shoots running together forming a false spike; bracts and bracteoles aristate, gland-tipped. Calyx 4–5-lobed, the upper lobes ±connate; lobes linear-lanceolate, aristate, their tips clavate and glandular, or oblong, 3–5-fid, each division with a glandular tip. Standard obovate, auriculate; appendages reduced to thickenings. Vexillary stamen free; anthers uniform. Ovary fusiform, hirsute; style filiform, apical third glabrous, bent at a right-angle; stigma terminal, minute. Pods oblong, compressed, (1–)2–3-seeded. Seeds suborbicular or ± rectangular or trigonous, compressed; hilum round; rim-aril little developed, but a small cartilaginous funicle-remnant persistent.
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Ovary spindle-shaped, hirsute; style geniculate, filiform, bearded proximally, widening slightly towards the bend, with a minute terminal stigma.
Seeds deep red to very dark brown, suborbicular or rectangular, with a small hilum bearing a small persistent cartilaginous funicle remnant.
Calyx 4–5-lobed, the upper lobes often connate, pubescent; lobes up to 5-toothed, each tooth gland-tipped or not.
Inflorescence an axillary or terminal pseudoraceme; bracts and bracteoles gland-tipped.
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules and stipels present.
Vexillary stamen free, the rest fused into a sheath.
Pod oblong, compressed, dehiscent, (1)2(3)-seeded.
Corolla small; standard obovate, clawed.
Erect or climbing herbs or subshrubs.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22358-1
WFO ID wfo-4000013315
COL ID 4B9M
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Synonyms

Eminia

Lower taxons

Eminia antennulifera Eminia harmsiana Eminia benguellensis Eminia holubii