Ptycholobium Harms

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Petals up to 7 mm long, usually bluish or purplish; standard spathulate, oblong cuneate or subpandurate, gradually narrowed to the claw, hairy outside; wings with a very slender claw, the limb ± oblong; keel petals with a very slender claw equalling those of the wings, the limb shorter than the claw, ½ to ? as long as the wing limb.
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Leaves digitately trifoliolate (i.e. the terminal one sessile, lacking a rachis) or sometimes unifoliolate, rarely with occasional leaves 5-foliolate with a short rachis; petiole short, up to 7(9) mm long; leaflets ± oblanceolate, usually glabrous above and appressed-pubescent beneath; stipules 1–4 mm long, linear-triangular.
Calyx 3–5 mm long, tubular to funnel-shaped with 5 subequal acute teeth slightly shorter than the tube, the two upper ones slightly connate at the base, pubescent.
Flowers in groups of (1)2–4(7) in axils of foliage leaves; pedicels not exceeding 2 mm; bracteoles absent.
Pod thin-walled, variously contorted, indehiscent, variously pubescent.
Stamens united into a tube, the upper one easily detached.
Young stems variously densely pubescent.
Ovary pubescent; style glabrous.
Undershrubs up to 40 cm high.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23392-1
WFO ID wfo-4000032123
COL ID 757P
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Synonyms

Ptycholobium

Lower taxons

Ptycholobium plicatum Ptycholobium contortum Ptycholobium biflorum