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Ophrestia pinnata

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
(Merrill) Verdcourt

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Woody hairy herbaceous twiner with hitsute striate stems. 5-7 foliolate leaves with mucronate leaflets to 85mm x 38mm, glabrate to strigose above & more densely so beneath. Axillary 100mm hirsute racemes with bractlets to 1mm long, of 6mmhirsute reddish-purple to pink flowers, calyx 3mm long with teeth to 1mm long. reddish-purple to pink corolla with standard 6mm long & wings & keel shorter. Tomentose or strigose pod to 80mm long.

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