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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Clianthus

Citation: Sol. ex Lindley, Bot. Reg. 21: t. 1775 (1836).

Derivation: Greek kleos, glory; anthos, flower; on account of the brilliantly coloured flowers.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Herbaceous perennials with several pinnate subopposite leaflets; stipules large, herbaceous; stipels absent.

Flowers large, showy, pendulous, in erect axillary umbelliform racemes terminated by a conspicuous sterile tip; bracts and bracteoles herbaceous; standard sharply reflexed, so that it and the beaklike folded keel are divaricate; upper stamen free, other 9 connate into an open sheath, anthers equal; ovary stipitate, with many ovules; style slender, incurved, bearded along the inner side towards the summit; stigma terminal, minute.

Pod turgid; seed exarillate.

Distribution:  8 species in south-east Asia and the southwest Pacific; 1 endemic in Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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