Sophora in Flora of Pakistan @ efloras.org

Sophora Linn., Sp.Pl. 373. 1753. Gen. Pl.ed.5.175.1754; Baker in Hook.f., Fl. Brit, Ind.1:248.1878; Parker, For.Fl.Punj. 3rd.ed.168.1956; Hutchinson, Gen. Fl. Pl. 1: 328.1964.

Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules minute or absent. Inflorescence a many flowered terminal racemes or panicle. Bracts linear, minute or absent. Calyx campanulate, teeth five, unequal, shortly triangular. Corolla cream or yellow, vexillum somewhat longer than the wings and keel. Stamens free or connate at the base. Ovary shortly stipitate, ovules many, style incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit a moniliform lomentum.

A genus of about 80 species, distributed in warm temperate regions of both hemispheres; represented in Pakistan by 6 species including the 3 cultivated ones.

1 Keel mucronate (2)

+ Keel not mucronate (3)

2 (1) Branches and leaves sparingly pilose Sophora alopecuroides var. alopecuroides

+ Branches and leaves densely pilose Sophora alopecuroides var. tomentosa

3 (1) Lateral branches and leaves ending in spines Sophora moorcroftiana

+ Lateral branches and leaves not ending in spines (4)

4 (3) Young branches and leaflets not silky, glabrous or sparingly pilose (5)

+ Young branches and leaflets silky Sophora mollis subsp. griffithii

5 (4) Fruit winged Sophora mollis ssp. mollis

+ Fruit without wing (6)

6 (5) Leaflets coriaceous, leathery Sophora secundiflora

+ Leaflets not coriaceous or leathery (7)

7 (6) Leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute Sophora japonica

+ Leaflets elliptical, obovate, truncate-obtuse (8)

8 (7) Leaflets c. 1.6 cm long, c. 9 mm broad Sophora mollis subsp. duthiei

+ Leaflets c. 2.5-3.7 cm long, c. 1.5 cm broad Sophora occidentalis

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