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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Prosopis

Citation: L., Syst. Nat. edn 12, 2:282 (1767).

Derivation: Greek name for some plant.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Trees or shrubs; leaves bipinnate; stipules spinescent or absent; glands present between the paired leaflets, small or obscure.

Flowers greenish-yellow, perfect, 5-merous, in axillary spike-like racemes or sessile in dense spikes; calyx 5-toothed; petals connate below the middle; stamens 10, free; ovary pubescent; legume linear, thick and compressed, not dehiscent.

Seeds ovoid, compressed, hard, smooth.

Distribution:  About 40 species in warm parts of America, Africa and Asia. 3 species are naturalised in Australia. (Pedley (1977) Austrobaileya 1:29-32.)

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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