Teramnus P. Browne
EOL Text
repens: creeping
Trailing or climbing perennial herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers usually in pairs or clusters along axillary axes. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair fused or not. Standard glabrous apart from occasional hairs at the centre. Alternate stamens sterile, lacking anthers. Ovary with many ovules, often with a tuft of hairs at the apex surrounding the style. Style with a capitate stigma. Pods elongate, linear, distinctly upturned at the apex.
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Teramnus
Bejucos herbáceos o poco leñosos, volubles, trepadores o rastreros. Hojas alternas, trifolioladas; estipelas diminutas; estípulas subuladas, persistentes. Flores bisexuales, zigomorfas, en pseudoracimos axilares, agrupadas en las hinchazones nudosas del raquis; brácteas pequeñas. Cáliz campanulado, con 4-5 lóbulos de tamaño similar; corola blanca, amarilla o lavanda, el estandarte obovado, las alas unguiculadas, la quilla más corta que las alas; estambres 10, monadelfos, las anteras desiguales; ovario súpero, unicarpelar, sésil, con numerosos óvulos, el estilo corto, pubescente, el estigma capitado. Fruto una legumbre linear, comprimida, curva en el ápice, dehiscente mediante valvas que se tuercen al abrir, las valvas septadas entre las semillas; semillas numerosas, comprimidas, oblongas. Género con 8 especies con distribución pantropical.
Teramnus
Herbaceous vines, twining, climbing, or creeping. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; stipules subulate, persistent; stipels minute. Inflorescences of axillary pseudoracemes; bracts small. Calyx campanulate, with 4-5 lobes of similar size; corolla white, yellow, or lavender, the standard obovate, the wings unguiculate, the keel shorter than the wings; stamens 10, monadelphous, the anthers unequal; ovary superior, sessile, with numerous ovules, the style short, pubescent, the stigma capitate. Fruit a linear legume, flattened, curved at the apex, dehiscent by valves that twist on opening; seeds numerous, flattened, oblong. A genus of 8 species, of pantropical distribution.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:10
Specimens with Sequences:6
Specimens with Barcodes:6
Species:3
Species With Barcodes:3
Public Records:3
Public Species:2
Public BINs:0
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Teramnus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
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