Flora of North America species comparison

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Dipogon

dipogon
Stems

twining, climbing, young growth densely strigose or villous, hairs not uncinate, glabrescent.
Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate;

stipules present, persistent, sessile, not produced below point of insertion;

petiolate;

leaflets 3, stipels present, blade margins entire, surfaces pubescent.
Inflorescences

5–10[–30]-flowered, axillary, pseudoracemes, with non-swollen floral nodes, 2 flowers per node;

bracts and bracteoles present, persistent, lanceolate.
Pedicels

longer than calyx tube.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx campanulate, lobes 5;

corolla rose-purple or pink, 10–15 mm, glabrous, banner with 1 prominent appendage at base;

stamens 10, diadelphous;

anthers basifixed, dehiscing laterally, pollen tricolporate;

ovary with nectary disc at base, linear;

style with 2 lines of hairs;

stigma terminal, fringed with hairs.
Fruits

legumes, sessile or subsessile, brown, compressed, straight or falcate, oblong, 3–5 cm, tipped by persistent style, dehiscent, glabrescent.
Seeds

3–5, black or brown, subglobose, 4–7 mm;

hilum 2.5–3 mm with aril.
Vines

, perennial, unarmed, base woody.
x

= 11.

Dipogon
Distribution
from USDA
s Africa [Introduced, California; introduced also in s South America, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

Dipogon is native to the Cape Province, South Africa; it is naturalized in temperate regions of Australia and New Zealand. It is cultivated mainly as an ornamental in temperate and tropical areas worldwide.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Alfonso Delgado-Salinas.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
D. lignosus
Synonyms Verdcourtia
Name authority Liebmann: Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 2: 374. 1854/1855; Index Seminum (Copenhagen) 1854: 27. (1855)
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