Coursetia

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Coursetia

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Erect or scandent shrubs, perennial herbs, or trees. Leaves impari- or paripinnate or unifoliolate; leaflets opposite, usually or woolly; stipules minute, persistent, or deciduous; stipels usually present. Flowers small, in axillary racemes or panicles, the bracts minute, deciduous or persistent, the bracteoles wanting; calyx bell-shaped, with 5 elongate sepals; corolla of various colors, the standard rounded to kidney-shaped, notched at apex, auriculate, the wings and keel of similar length, the keel acute at apex; stamens 10, diadelphous or monadelphous; ovary sessile, pubescent, with 12-30 ovules, the style curved, pubescent, the stigma capitate. Legume linear to oblong, flattened, with straight or sinuous margins and fine cross-septa between the seeds, dehiscent; seeds slightly compressed.

  • Distribution

    A genus of 38 species from the neotropics.

    Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|