Schrankia


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Read about Schrankia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Schrankia (named after F. B. Schrank, a Bavarian botanist); also spelled Schranckia. Leguminosae. Perennial herbs or subshrubs, often prostrate, armed with recurved prickles. The species in common cult. is an outdoor plant. Lvs. bipinnate, often sensitive, petiole without glands, frequently bristly between the pinnae; the lfts. small; stipules bristle-like: fls. in globose heads or cylindrical spikes, peduncles solitary or fascicled at the axils, rose or purplish, 5-4-merous, sessile, perfect or polygamous; calyx very minute; petals connate to the middle in a funnelform corolla; stamens numerous, free; ovary subsessile: legume linear, acute or acuminate, both sides aculeate.—About 10 species, all American; one has also been discovered in Trop. Afr. These plants are also known as Morongia, the following species, in that case, taking the name M. uncinata, Brit. CH


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