Description
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Perennial twining herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets sometimes lobed. Stipules and stipels present. Flowers borne in 4-10-flowered axillary clusters, usually appearing before the leaves. Calyx 4-5-lobed, the upper pair united into a short rounded or notched lip. Corolla: standard oblate, reflexed; keel incurved through 360 degrees, the beak twisted. Style composed of two parts: a thickened, curved, glabrous upper part and a slender flexible lower part. Pods linear, straight. Seeds oblong, flattened.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Decorsea Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=783
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Decorsea: Brief Summary
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Decorsea is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae.
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