Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Fabaceae
Fabaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Trees. Leaves pinnate; leaflets opposite or alternate; stipules minute, deciduous; stipels 1 per leaflet. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal panicles; bracts minute, deciduous; pedicels short; calyx bell-shaped, truncate, or with 5 minute teeth at apex; corolla pink to purple, the standard circular, wings and keel of similar size; stamens 10, diadelphous; ovary shortly stipitate, with few ovules, the stigma punctiform. Fruit globose to globose-ellipsoid, 1-seeded, indehiscent.
Genus Description - Trees. Leaves pinnate; leaflets opposite or alternate; stipules minute, deciduous; stipels 1 per leaflet. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal panicles; bracts minute, deciduous; pedicels short; calyx bell-shaped, truncate, or with 5 minute teeth at apex; corolla pink to purple, the standard circular, wings and keel of similar size; stamens 10, diadelphous; ovary shortly stipitate, with few ovules, the stigma punctiform. Fruit globose to globose-ellipsoid, 1-seeded, indehiscent.