Stylosanthes

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Fabaceae

• Scientific Name

  Stylosanthes

• Description

  Description - Perennial herbs, mainly with villous or viscid pubescence, 3-foliolate leaves, and yellow terminal or axillary spicate or capitate flowers. Calyx-tube campanulate, its teeth membranous, the 4 upper ones more or less united. Petals and stamens inserted at or near the summit of the tube; standard orbicular; wings oblong; keel curved, beaked. Stamens monadelphous; anthers alternately longer and shorter. Ovary nearly sessile; ovules 2 or 3; style filiform. Pod sessile, flattened, 1-2-jointed, reticulate, dehiscent at the summit. [Greek, column-flower, alluding to the column-like calyx-tube.] About 30 species, of warm and temperate regions. Type species: Stylosanthes procumbens Sw.