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3698.000 Lotus
Description of the genus
Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves (in ours) 5-foliolate, the basal pair often resembling stipules; true stipules reduced to dark glands or 0. Corolla yellow, pink, cream or white, glabrous. Fruit straight, narrowly cylindric, dehiscent into 2 twisted valves. Worldwide: 100 species, mainly in northern temperate regions, extending to mountainous areas of Africa and Australia Zimbabwe: 5 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| arabicus L. | N,C,E,S | |
| corniculatus L. var. corniculatus | E | |
| discolor E. Mey. subsp. mollis J.B. Gillett | E | Description |
| namulensis Brand | E | Description, Image |
| wildii J.B. Gillett[NrEnd] | E | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Lotus:
Our websites:
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated LotusFlora of Malawi: Lotus
Flora of Mozambique: Lotus
Flora of Zambia: Lotus
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Lotus
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): LotusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lotus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Lotus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Lotus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Lotus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lotus
JSTOR Plant Science: Lotus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lotus
Plants of the World Online: Lotus
Tropicos: Lotus
Wikipedia: Lotus
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