3544.000 Gleditsia L. - Honey-locusts

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, usually with stout, simple or branched, thorns. Leaves usually 2-pinnate on long shoots, 1-pinnate or 2-pinnate on short shoots. Leaflets often serrate. Flowers unisexual, in racemes or panicles, greenish. Bracteoles small or 0. Calyx campanulate with 3-5, subequal lobes. Petals 3-5, sessile, imbricate. Stamens 6-10. Anthers uniform. Pods ovate or elongated, straight, flattened, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent.

Worldwide: 14 species from E N America to New Guinea

Gleditsia triacanthos

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Other sources of information about Gleditsia:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Gleditsia page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Gleditsia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Gleditsia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Gleditsia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gleditsia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Gleditsia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Gleditsia.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=696, retrieved 19 May 2013

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