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Genus Lotononis Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae

Description: Perennial herbs or shrubs.

Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; stipulate; stipels absent.

Flowers in axillary or terminal pedunculate racemes or umbels; bracts caducous. Calyx 5-toothed, weakly 2-lipped. Standard ovate or obovate; keel incurved. Stamens monodelphous, sheath split on upper side; anthers alternately long and basifixed and short and dorsifixed. Style glabrous.

Pods ± oblong, dehiscent; seeds without aril.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 100 species, mostly S. Africa. Australia: 1 species (naturalized).

Text by C. Gardner
Taxon concept:

One species in NSW: Lotononis bainesii

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