WorldFloraDB - Lespedeza

Characteristics

Cal-tube short, the narrow lobes subequal, or the 2 upper partly connate; standard suborbicular to oblong-ovate, short-clawed; wings oblong, straight, clawed and auriculate, connivent with the keel; keel-pet straight, blunt, obliquely obovate; stamens 10, equal, diadelphous; fr oval to elliptic, indehiscent, 1-seeded; herbs or shrubs with numerous small trifoliolate lvs and spicate, racemose or solitary, purple to ochroleucous fls in sessile or peduncled axillary infls, each fl subtended at base by 2 or 4 small bractlets; stipellules wanting; many spp. have both petaliferous and apetalous fls with similar or different frs. 25, widespread.The following names are believed to be based on hybrids:L. ×acuticarpa Mack. & Bush = L. violacea × virginicaL. ×brittonii E. P. Bicknell = L. procumbens × virginicaL. ×hirta var. appressipilis S. F. Blake = L. angustifolia × hirtaL. ×longifolia DC. = L. capitata × hirtaL. ×manniana Mack. & Bush = L. capitata × violaceaL. ×neglecta Mack. & Bush = L. stuevei × virginicaL. ×nuttallii Darl. = L. hirta × intermediaL. ×oblongifolia (Britton) W. Stone = L. angustifolia × hirtaL. ×simulata Mack. & Bush = L. capitata × virginica

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Subshrubs, shrubs, or perennial herbs. Leaves pinnately compound, 3-foliolate; stipule small, subulate or linear, persistent or caducous; stipels absent; leaflets entire. Racemes axillary or flowers fasciculate; bracts persistent, 2-flowered at each bract; bracteoles 2, often persistent; flowers often dimorphic, corollate or not (cleistogamous plants). Calyx campanulate; tube short; lobes 5, upper 2 often connate at base. Corolla exserted; standard oblong or obovate; wings oblong, straight, clawed, auriculate, connivent with keel; keel obtuse and incurved. Stamens 10, diadelphous (9+1), equal. Ovary superior, 1-ovuled; style incurved; stigma terminal. Legume ovoid, obovoid, or ellipsoidal, rarely slightly globose, lenticular, indehiscent, reticulate veined, 1-seeded.

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