Aeschynomene evenia C.Wright
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Authority
Rudd, Velva E. 1955. The American species of Aeschynomene. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 32: 1-172.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Stem to about 1 m. high, sparsely hispidulous, often glabrate; stipules 5-15 mm. long, about 1.5-3 mm. wide, subentire to scrrateciliate, the upper portion attenuate, 2-3 times as long as the acute to rounded, auriculate lower portion; leaves about 2-4 cm. long, 16-50-foliolate, the petioles and rachises hispidulous; leaflets 2-9 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, entire to serrate-ciliate ; peduncles and pedicels glabrous to hispidulous; bracts graduating from stipule-like to subcordate, acuminate, laciniate, about 3-5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide; bracteoles oblong-ovate, acute, 2-3 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, subentire to denticulate or serrulate; flowers 5-7 (-9) mm. long; calyx 4-5 mm. long; standard averaging about 6 mm. long, the claw scarcely 1 mm. long, the blade about 5 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, obovate, somewhat ciliate; wings 5-6 mm. long, the claw 0.5-1 mm. long, the blade 4.5-5 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide; keel petals 6-7 mm. long, the claw 0.5 mm. long, the blade 5.5-6.5 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide; stamens about 6 mm. long; fruit 5-14-articulate, the stipe 3-4 (-6) mm. long, subglabrous to hispidulous, the articles about 2.5-3.5 mm. in diameter, hispidulous, usually glabrate, one margin of the fruit subentire, the other subcrenate; seeds about 2 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, brown.