Flora of North America species comparison

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Diphysa

diphysa
Habit Shrubs [trees], unarmed [spinose].
Stems

erect, pubescent [glabrous], hairs glandular, fine-appressed to spreading;

peduncles and pedicels glandular-hirsute.
Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate;

stipules present;

petiolate;

leaflets [13–]19–25[–35], usually alternate, sometimes subopposite, stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences

4–7-flowered, terminal and axillary, racemes;

bracts present;

bracteoles present.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx campanulate, tubular basally, lobes 5;

corolla usually yellowish;

stamens 10, diadelphous;

anthers dorsifixed, ± uniform.
Fruits

legumes, stipitate, slightly inflated [to bladderlike], straight, oblong [lanceoloid-ellipsoid], dehiscent, pubescent.
Seeds

4–14, oblong.

Diphysa
Distribution
from USDA
Mexico; Arizona
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 19 (1 in the flora).

Most species in Diphysa have inflated, bladderlike fruit segments, reminiscent of Sesbania. The segments in Diphysa thurberi, however, are barely or not at all inflated.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Robert H. Mohlenbrock.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
D. thurberi
Name authority Jacquin: Enum. Syst. Pl., 7, 28. (1760)
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