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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
  • Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
  • Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
  • 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
  • Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
  • iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
Write-in vote: vote
We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:

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Key to Dalbergia

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1 Tree; leaves with 3-5 (-7) leaflets; inflorescence with hairs 0.5-0.6 mm long
1 Scandent shrub or liana; leaves with 1 (-3) leaflet(s); inflorescence with hairs < 0.5 mm long.
  2 Leaflets 3-7 (-10) cm long, the base slightly cordate; leaflets slightly paler below than above, but not distinctly bicolored; fruits longer than wide, 1-4 (-6) cm long, 0.8-1 cm wide; seeds 1-4 per fruit
  2 Leaflets 6-13 cm long, the base cuneate to rounded; leaflets distinctly bicolored, much paler below than above; fruits about as wide as long, 2-3 cm long, 2-3 cm wide; seed 1 per fruit