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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Sophora L.

SOPHORA L., 1753

Fls large, racemose or panicled; calyx oblique, teeth short; standard broad, wings < keel. Stamens 10, free. Ovary stipitate, ovules ∞; style incurved, stigma terminal. Pods moniliform, elongate, terete or 4-winged, coriac. to woody, ind. or dehiscent by valves. Seeds ± globose, testa hardened. Trees or shrubs with imparipinnate lvs. About 30 spp. of temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres. The N.Z. spp. are endemic.

Key

1
Lvs not > 2.5 cm. long, lflt pairs 1-5, pods up to 3 cm. long, adult branches densely divaricate
1. prostrata
Lvs much longer, lflt pairs ∞, pods much longer, adult branches spreading
2
2
Lflts 1·5-3·5 cm. long; standard distinctly < wings
2. tetraptera
Lflts < 1 cm. long, standard about = wings
3. microphylla
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