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2. Tribe DETARIEAE
甘豆族 gan dou zu
Authors: Dezhao Chen, Prof. Dianxiang Zhang, Ding Hou, Kai Larsen & Supee Saksuwan Larsen
Leaves pinnate, sometimes only with 1 pair of leaflets or a single leaflet. Bracteoles caducous, imbricate or valvate, persistent. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic to conspicuously zygomorphic. Receptacle shallowly cup-shaped or tubular. Sepals usually 4 or 5, often enclosing petals when flowers in bud. Petals absent to 5. Perfect stamens 2-10 or numerous; anthers basifixed or dorsifixed, opening by lateral slits, sometimes with staminodes. Ovary stipitate or sessile; stipe free or adnate to receptacle.
About 80 genera and 730-770 species: distributed in tropical regions; six genera (three introduced) and ten species (two endemic, five introduced) in China.
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Bracteoles sepaloid or petaloid, enclosing flower bud before flowering; stalk of ovary adnate to hypanthium. |
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8 Tamarindus |
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Bracteoles not sepaloid or petaloid, imbricate, often caducous; ovary inserted at center and free from hypanthium |
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Petals absent; calyx lobes petaloid. |
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4 Saraca |
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Petals present |
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| 3 (2) |
Petals 3 or 5 |
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Petal 1, rarely 2 |
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| 4 (3) |
Flowers purplish red or pink; perfect stamens 2; leaves abruptly pinnate; leaflets 3-5 pairs. |
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3 Lysidice |
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Flowers white; perfect stamens 10; leaves with 1 pair of leaflets. |
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6 Hymenaea |
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Petals with long claw, exceeding above sepals; legume oblong; seeds with horny aril at base. |
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5 Afzelia |
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Petals not clawed, enclosed in uppermost calyx lobe; legume orbicular or elliptic; seeds with fleshy aril at base. |
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7 Sindora |
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