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Desmanthus pernambucanus

Desmanthus pernambucanus (L.) Thell.

Family: Fabaceae

pigeon bundleflower

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Flora of Hawaii
Resources

Wagner, Warren L., Derral R. Herbst and S. H. Sohmer. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Distribution	A genus of about 25 species of the Neotropics, with several introduced into the Old World.


Habit	Shrubs or perennial herbs.
Leaves	Leaves bipinnately compound, leaflets small, opposite, often with a petiolar gland, stipules small, subulate, persistent.
Flowers	Flowers mimosaceous, perfect, sometimes those in lower part of inflorescence staminate or neutral, these without petals but with staminodes, each one minute, in axillary, solitary, stalked heads or short spikes, bracteoles absent; calyx campanulate, shortly 5 lobed; petals distinct or slightly coherent at base; stamens 5-10; filaments distinct, exserted; ovules numerous.
Fruit	Pods linear, straight or curved, flattened, dehiscent, valves thickened or membranous.
Seeds	Seeds more than 15, longitudinally or obliquely arranged, ovoid, compressed, without a pleurogram.

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