WorldFloraDB - Glycyrrhiza

Characteristics

Subshrubs or perennial herbs. Roots and rhizomes very developed. Stem erect, much branched. Leaves imparipinnate, (3 or)5-17-foliolate; stipules 2, free, caducous or persistent; leaflets entire or serrulate. Racemes axillary; bracts caducous. Calyx campanulate or cylindric, 5-toothed, slightly bilabiate. Corolla white, yellow, purple, or purple-red; standard shortly clawed; wings shorter than standard, obliquely oblong; keels joined. Stamens diadelphous or monadelphous. Ovary sessile, 2-10-ovuled. Legume ovoid, oblong, or linear, rarely moniliform, straight or curved, flat or inflated, prickly or rarely smooth, indehiscent or dehiscent. Seeds reniform or orbicular.

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Cal bilabiate, the tube campanulate, oblique, the upper 2 lobes united part-way; pet usually acute, the standard oblong-obovate, tapering to the base, the wings and keel shorter, oblong, clawed; stamens 10, diadelphous for about half their length; anthers alternately large and small; ovary cylindric; style smooth, nearly straight; fr indehiscent or only tardily dehiscent, slightly flattened to somewhat inflated, glandular or spiny, few-seeded; gland-dotted perennial herbs with odd-pinnate lvs and dense axillary racemes of white, yellow, or blue fls. 20, ± cosmop.

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