3860.000 Amphicarpaea Elliot ex Nutt.

Verdcourt, B. (2000) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6)

Description of the genus

Climbing herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipels present. Flowers in lax racemes; bracts conspicuous, striate, bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-lobed, with the two upper lobes connate; corolla small; standard obovate, glabrous. Ovary shortly stipitate, many-ovuled; style geniculate, filiform, beardless; stigma capitate, terminal, or in cleistogamous flowers the style short with the stigma angled such that it is in contact with the anthers. Fruit pod linear or falcate, compressed. Seeds variously coloured, sub-globose or ovoid, with a short lateral hilum.

Worldwide: Species 3 in America and Asia with one species in tropical Africa.

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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africana (Hook.f.) Harms EMc

Other sources of information about Amphicarpaea:

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Flora of Malawi: Amphicarpaea

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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Amphicarpaea
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Amphicarpaea
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Amphicarpaea
Wikipedia: Amphicarpaea
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Amphicarpaea
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Amphicarpaea

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-23

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2023). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Amphicarpaea.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1951, retrieved 30 March 2023

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