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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Ptychosema

Citation: Benth. ex Lindley, Sketch Veg. Swan Riv. Col. xvi (1840).

Derivation: Greek ptykhe, fold, leaf; serna, sign, standard.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herbs with tufted stems ascending from long fine horizontal underground roots; leaves imparipinnate, stipulate.

Inflorescence terminal, if more than one on the stem then leaf-opposed, 1- to several-flowered; bract and bracteoles small; calyx with 5 teeth scarcely differentiated into 2 lips, narrowed basally into a solid receptacle tube, shorter than or nearly equal to the calyx tube; petals on slender claws; stamens all joined in a sheath open adaxially; anthers uniform, dorsifixed; ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous, several-ovulate; style upturned, with a terminal stigma.

Pod rounded-oblong, flattened; seed with a rim-aril only.

Distribution:  Endemic in Australia with 2 species.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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