3698.000 Lotus L.

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.

Lotus namulensis

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
arabicus L.N,C,E,S
corniculatus L. var. corniculatus E
discolor E. Mey. subsp. mollis J.B. GillettEDescription
namulensis BrandEDescription, Image
wildii J.B. Gillett[NrEnd]EDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Lotus:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Lotus
Flora of Mozambique: Lotus
Flora of Zambia: Lotus
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Lotus

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Lotus.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=720, retrieved 22 March 2023

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