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Keys
  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
  • Genera
  • Families
Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Magnoliopsida

Fabaceae

Faboideae

Lathyrus

  • Lathyrus latifolius
  • Lathyrus tingitanus

Lathyrus L.

7 species naturalized Aust.; all states and territories except NT

Annual or perennial climber. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, ending in a branched tendril. Flowers in axillary racemes or solitary. Calyx campanulate, regular or 2-lipped. Corolla with a broad standard which is longer than the keels. Stamens united into 2 groups. Ovary sessile or stipitate. Style compressed hairy on upper side.