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Key to Zornia

Fabaceae

Zornia

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1 Leaves with 4 leaflets; floral bracts ovate to elliptic, 3.5-7.1 mm wide; loment with retrorsely barbed bristles but otherwise glabrous; loments with 2-4 segments; loment segments lunulate, 3.4-4.2 mm long
1 Leaves with 2 leaflets; floral bracts lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1.3-1.7 mm wide; loment with retrorsely barbed bristles and hirtellous; loments with (3-) 4-6 (-7) segments; loment segments ± square, 1.9-2.1 mm long.
  2 Surface of the fruit articles densely setose, not reticulate; flora bracts only partly hiding the flowers
  2 Surface of the fruit articles conspicuously reticulate; floral bracts 8-12 mm long, mainly hiding the flowers