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!Lespedeza Michx.

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Published In: Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux) 2: 70–71, pl. 39–40. 1803. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)

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General/Distribution: A genus with about 40 species, distributed in Temperate North America, East and Tropical Asia and Tropical Australia. In Pakistan it is represented by 5 species.

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Shrubs or undershrubs, branches pubescent. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate or unifoliolate, leaflets entire, stipules free. Inflorescence raceme, panicle or flowers fasciculate. Bract small, 2 bracteoles at the tip of the pedicel. Calyx teeth subequal or 2 upper teeth connate. Keel straight, obtuse or truncate. Stamens diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary unifoliolate. Fruit ovate or orbicular, compressed, indehiscent.

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1.	Flowers in peduncled raceme

2.	Stem with white appressed hairs

Lespedeza floribunda

2.	Stem with yellowish spreading hairs

Lespedeza tomentosa

1.	Flowers in cluster or in shortly peduncled umbel

3.	Leaflets more than 5 mm broad

Lespedeza elegans

3.	Leaflets less than 5 mm broad

4.	Calyx c. 7.5-9 mm long, keel c. 12 mm long

Lespedeza gerardiana

4.	Calyx c. 2.5 mm long, keel c. 5-7 mm long

5.	Length of pedicel and peduncle more than 5 mm long (leaflets obovate)

5.	Length of pedicel and peduncle less than 5 mm long

6.	Leaflets obovate

6.	Leaflets oblanceolate

Lespedeza juncea var. sericea

Lower Taxa

Lespedeza aitchisonii Ricker = Lespedeza juncea (L. f.) Pers.
!Lespedeza cuneata (Dum. Cours.) G. Don = Lespedeza juncea var. sericea F.B. Forbes & Hemsl.
Lespedeza dubia Schindl. = Campylotropis meeboldii Schindl.
Lespedeza elegans Cambess.
Lespedeza floribunda Bunge
!Lespedeza gerardiana Wall. ex Maxim.
Lespedeza glomerata Hornem. = Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Siebold ex Maxim.
!Lespedeza juncea (L. f.) Pers.
Lespedeza macrophylla Bunge = Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Siebold ex Maxim.
Lespedeza macrostyla Baker ex Maxim. = Campylotropis macrostyla Schindl.
Lespedeza meeboldii Schindl. = Campylotropis meeboldii Schindl.
*Lespedeza sericea Miq. = Lespedeza juncea var. sericea F.B. Forbes & Hemsl.
Lespedeza stenocarpa Maxim. = Campylotropis stenocarpa Schindl.
!Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Siebold ex Maxim.
Lespedeza variegata Cambess.
Lespedeza villosa (Willd.) Pers. = Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Siebold ex Maxim.

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