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3544.000 Gleditsia - 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 |
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Other sources of information about Gleditsia:
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Gleditsia pageePIC (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
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