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Ononis L.

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Ononis L., Sp. Pl. 716-719 (1753)
Ononis L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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L.
L.
1753
716-719
ICN
Ononis L.
genus
Ononis

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Ononis

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Ononis L.

Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or small trees, sometimes armed. Lvs usually pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely 1-foliolate or very rarely with 2-5 pairs of leaflets; principal lateral veins thin and straight, terminating at leaflet margin in a tooth; stipules adnate to petiole. Fls solitary or 2-3 in axillary racemes; bracts minute or 0 but floral lvs sometimes reduced to bracts. Calyx teeth 5. Stamens connate in a closed tube or rarely vexillary stamen free; alternate anthers versatile, remainder basifixed. Style glabrous; stigma terminal, subcapitate. Pod 2-valved, straight, dehiscent, not armed, 1-many-seeded; seeds estrophiolate, smooth or tuberculate.

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Ononis L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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948b97d0-41af-40cc-ac04-6d2e6fdafbd2
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1 January 2000
4 September 2008
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