WorldFloraDB - Ornithopus

Characteristics

Herbs. Lvs imparipinnate, stipulate; leaflets numerous, entire, with lateral veins not reaching the margin. Infl. axillary, capitate or umbellate, long-pedunculate; head subtended by a leafy bract or with minute bracts and bracteoles. Calyx tubular or campanulate; calyx teeth 5, subequal or the upper 2 somewhat connate. Corolla white, pink or yellow, sometimes with red or pink stripes. Vexillary stamen free, remainder connate; anthers uniform. Style inflexed; stigma capitate. Pod lomentaceous, compressed or subterete, curved or straight, veined or smooth, indehiscent, constricted or not between segments; seeds oblong.

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Cal-tube much longer than the lanceolate teeth; standard obovate to orbicular; keel obtuse, shorter than the oblong wings; stamens 10, diadelphous; fr terete or compressed, transversely segmented and usually constricted between the segments, eventually breaking at the constrictions; herbs with odd-pinnate lvs of numerous lfls; fls white to pink or red, in small heads. 6, mainly Mediterranean.

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