These findings agree with Sousa and Rudd, who mention bracteolate flowers for Styphnolobium and ebracteolate flowers for Sophora s.s.
Racemes are rather loose and open, the flowers widely spaced on minutely bracteolate pedicels mostly 4-10 mm long.
The most important differential characteristics of the section Trionychon are branched stems, bracteolate flowers, an entire and campanulated calyx, a blue or purple corolla, white anthers, and the stigma usually white.
The Costa Rican material better concords with tribe Cheloneae sensu Thieret, characterized by bracteolate, cymose or racemose inflorescences and sterile posterior stamen filaments.
The flowers are regular, bisexual and borne in bracteolate, joined pedicels in axillary cymes.
Definition of bracteolate in US English:
bracteolate
adjectiveˈbraktēəlit
Having bracteoles.
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The Costa Rican material better concords with tribe Cheloneae sensu Thieret, characterized by bracteolate, cymose or racemose inflorescences and sterile posterior stamen filaments.
The flowers are regular, bisexual and borne in bracteolate, joined pedicels in axillary cymes.
Racemes are rather loose and open, the flowers widely spaced on minutely bracteolate pedicels mostly 4-10 mm long.
The most important differential characteristics of the section Trionychon are branched stems, bracteolate flowers, an entire and campanulated calyx, a blue or purple corolla, white anthers, and the stigma usually white.
These findings agree with Sousa and Rudd, who mention bracteolate flowers for Styphnolobium and ebracteolate flowers for Sophora s.s.