Strongylodon

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Features:	✓	evergreen, deciduous

Scientific Names

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Strongylodon is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae.

Read about Strongylodon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

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 The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Species

• Strongylodon macrobotrys‎

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