Strongylodon
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Strongylodon is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae.
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Strongylodon (Greek, round and tooth; the lobes of the calyx are rounded). Leguminosae. Glabrous twining shrubs or subshrubs: lvs. pinnately 3-foliate, stipelled; stipules small: fls. red, showy, fasciculately racemose on elongated, axillary peduncles; calyx-teeth broad, obtuse; standard ovate-oblong, acute, recurved, finally reflexed, 2-appendaged inside above the claw; wings shorter than the standard and adherent to the keel which is beaked, strongly incurved, equaling the standard and connate with the petals; stamens free from the standard; ovary stipitate, 1- or few-ovuled: legume stipitate, obliquely ovate-oblong, 2-valved.— About 20 species, Madagascar, Ceylon, to N. Austral. and the Pacific islands. May be planted far S. CH
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