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Pearsonia

Pearsonia
Photo: Paul venter, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)

About

Pearsonia is a genus of 12 species of plants belonging to the family Fabaceae and occurring in Africa south of the equator with 1 species found on Madagascar. The species are usually herbs or shrublets with woody rootstocks. Leaves are usually sessile and 3-foliolate. The inflorescence is a congested or lax terminal raceme. The name of this genus commemorates the South African botanist Henry Harold Welch Pearson.

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Pearsonia cajanifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pearsonia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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