Description
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Annual or perennial herbs.
Stipules present. Leaves usually digitately 3-foliolate; lateral
leaflets often much smaller than terminal. Inflorescence terminal, but
often leaf-opposed and appearing axillary, racemose or
subumbellate, 1-many-flowered. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper 4 united
higher up than the lower lobe, which is often narrower.
Standard usually ovate or obovate with a short linear-oblong
claw. Stamens all united in a tube; anthers dimorphic.
Pod oblong, slightly inflated. Seeds usually numerous.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lotononis Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=710
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- Petra Ballings
Lotononis: Brief Summary
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Lotononis sp.
Lotononis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae and the tribe Crotalarieae. Almost all of the species in the genus occur in southern Africa.
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