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Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Shrubs, unarmed, often with leafless branches. Leaves rare, 1-foliolate. Flowers showy, bright yellow, in terminal many-flowered racemes, bracts minute. Calyx split at back; teeth 5, upper 2 free, lower 3 connate into a lip. Petals: upper large wings obovate, keel incurved, longer than wings, claw adnate to the staminal tube. Fruit a pod, linear-oblong, flat, dehiscent, 2-valved. Seeds many. Worldwide: Species 1, from the Mediterranean region, now naturalised in Gauteng and the Cape. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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