Platysepalum Welw. ex Baker

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Trees, shrubs or lianes only differing from that group of species in Millettia which includes M. puguënsis in having the 2 upper calyx-teeth greatly enlarged to form an upper lip that is wider towards the apex than at the base and is as large as the standard, which it almost completely hides. The lower calyx-teeth are free, lanceolate and shorter than the upper lip, though longer than the tube.
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Calyx tube campanulate; upper pair of teeth joined to form a very broad emarginate hood as large as the standard; lower 3 teeth narrowly lanceolate.
Inflorescences paniculate, axillary, the branches pseudoracemose, many-flowered; bracteoles large, oblong, sometimes persistent.
Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets in 2 or more pairs, opposite, stipellate; stipules very small, falling early.
Ovary sessile, pubescent, 5–7-ovuled; style filiform, glabrous, incurved with minute terminal stigma.
Standard oblate and emarginate to obcordate, shortly clawed, glabrous.
Upper stamen joined only near base of filament sheath.
Pod dehiscent, woody, compressed, 3–5-seeded.
Seeds, discoid or compressed-oblong.
Small trees, shrubs or lianes.
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