Flora of North America species comparison

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Cladrastis

yellowwood
Habit Trees, unarmed.
Stems

ascending, glabrous.
Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate, axillary buds enclosed in petiole base;

stipules absent;

petiolate;

leaflets 5–9[–15], alternate, stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially.
Inflorescences

25–75+-flowered, terminal, panicles, pendulous;

bracts absent.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx slightly zygomorphic, tubular, lobes 5, connate basally 1/2 length;

corolla white [pink];

stamens 10, monadelphous, slightly connate at base;

anthers dorsifixed.
Fruits

legumes, sessile, compressed laterally, straight, elliptic to linear, apex acute, dehiscent, glabrous or slightly pubescent.
Seeds

[1–]5–8, brown, reniform.
x

= 14.

Cladrastis
Distribution
from USDA
sc United States; se United States; e Asia
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 6 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Matthew L. Duley.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
C. kentukea
Name authority Rafinesque: Cincinnati Lit. Gaz. 1(8): 60. (1824)
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