The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
155. Keel beaked. Corolla yellowish-green, shorter than the calyx.
Ovule 1. Flowers in small terminal heads.--Species 1. South Africa
(Cape Colony). =Lathriogyne= Eckl. & Zeyh.
Keel blunt. Corolla red or white, longer than the calyx.--Species 10.
South Africa. =Amphithalea= Eckl. & Zeyh.
156. Corolla blue, red, or white. Ovule 1. Leaves unifoliolate or
digitate, stipulate. (See 153.) =Psoralea= L.
Corolla yellow. Ovules 2 or more. Leaves simple, exstipulate. 157
157. Calyx-lobes very unequal, the lowest very large and petaloid.
Standard ovate or oblong; wings oblong. Inflorescence surrounded by
large bracts.--Species 4. South Africa. =Liparia= L.
Calyx-lobes about equal. Standard suborbicular; wings obovate. Bracts
not very large.--Species 15. South Africa. =Priestleya= DC.
158. (149.) Filaments united into a sheath which is slit above. 159
Filaments united into a tube which is closed all round. 180
159. Style bearded or ciliate on the inside towards the apex. 160
Style glabrous inside. 161
160. Fruit flat, oblong or ovate, stalked, downy, 2-seeded. Shrubs.
Leaves trifoliolate.--Species 1. Island of Socotra. =Priotropis= Wight
& Arn.
Fruit turgid.--Species 220. Tropical and South Africa and Egypt. Some
yield fibres, dyes, vegetables, and medicaments, or serve as ornamental
plants. =Crotalaria= L.
161. Ovule 1. 162
Ovules 2 or more. 163
162. Leaves stipulate. Flowers ebracteolate, blue, pink or white. Keel
incurved. Fruit indehiscent. Seeds without an outgrowth at the hilum,
adhering to the pericarp. Gland-dotted plants. (See 153.) =Psoralea= L.
Leaves exstipulate. Flowers bracteolate, red, yellow or white.
Keel almost straight, gibbous at each side. Fruit dehiscing by two
valves. Seeds with an outgrowth at the hilum. Silky-hairy shrubs.
Leaves simple, sessile. Flowers usually in pairs in the axils of the
leaves.--Species 8. South Africa. =Coelidium= Vog.
163. Leaves simple and undivided or unifoliolate, usually exstipulate.
164
Leaves digitate, with 3, rarely 5-7 leaflets, usually stipulate. 171
164. Calyx-lobes distinctly unequal, the 1-3 lowest usually narrower
than the rest. 165
Calyx-lobes about equal. 169
165. Petals adnate at the base to the staminal tube, yellow; wings
auricled at the base; keel with a blunt spur at each side. Ovules
2. Shrubs clothed with long hairs. Leaves stalked, linear. Flowers
axillary. Bracteoles leaf-like.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony).
=Walpersia= Harv.
Petals free from the staminal tube. 166
166. Petals red, long-clawed, glabrous. Fruit ovate, turgid. Prostrate
undershrubs clothed with long reddish-brown hairs. Leaves imbricate
sessile, lanceolate. Flowers in short racemes.--Species 1. South Africa
(Cape Colony). =Euchlora= Eckl. & Zeyh.
Petals yellow, rarely white or red, but then short-clawed and leaves
fascicled. 167
167. Leaves in tufts of 3 or more, usually thread-shaped.--Species 150.
South Africa. =Aspalathus= L.
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