Family: Fabaceae
Albizia
Citation:
Durazz., Mag. Tosc. 3:11 (1772).
Derivation: After Filippo Albizzi a Florentine noble who imported foreign plants for his garden about 1790.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Small trees or shrubs; leaves bipinnate, usually with conspicuous glands on the petiole and rhachis; stipules setaceous or sometimes larger and membranous.
Inflorescence pedunculate, axillary, of globose or cylindrical spikes; flowers 5-merous; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; petals usually small, inconspicuous; stamens many, long and conspicuous, united basally into a tube; ovary oblong.
Fruit broadly linear, straight-edged, flat, thin; seed ovate or orbicular, compressed; funicle filiform.
Distribution:
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About 145 species; tropical and subtropical, about 11 species native to Australia.
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Biology:
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Author:
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