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New Phytol. 54: 68–70. Wigginton, M. J. ) (1999). British red data books. Vol. 1 Vascular plants. Peterborough. 1. All leaves 3-foliolate; most with petioles more than 10 mm; flowers in terminal, leafless racemes 1. nigricans 1. Lower leaves 3-foliolate, upper leaves usually 1-foliolate; petioles less than 10 mm; flowers 1-few in lateral groups 2. 2. Calyx less than 3 mm; corolla 7–12 mm, white 2. multiflorus 2. Calyx more than 3 mm; corolla 10–25 mm, yellow to red 3. 3. Twigs 8–10-angled, fragile; legumes densely, long, white hairy 3.
Native of California. All 3 colour forms grow together on the Suffolk coast. 2. L. × regalis Bergmans Russell Lupin L. arboreus × polyphyllus Perennial herb with a tap-root and fibrous side-roots. 5 m, pale green, erect, striate, sparingly branched, with sparse appressed hairs, leafy. Leaves alternate, palmate, subrotund in outline; leaflets 8–15, 9–12 × 2–3 cm, medium green on upper surface, paler, slightly glaucous green beneath, elliptical or lanceolate, rounded-mucronate to shortly acute, entire, narrowed at base, glabrous on upper surface, appressed-hairy beneath, sessile or nearly so; petiole up to 30 cm, pale green, appressed-hairy; stipules up to 30 mm, lanceolate, acute at apex.
Br. nom. conserv. Leguminosae Subfamily Caesalpinioideae (R. ) Deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, paripinnate or simple and subrotund. Inflorescence of dense lateral clusters of flowers or racemes; flowers bisexual, slightly zygomorphic, but rarely as strongly as in Fabaceae. Calyx with 5 lobes as free as the disc. Corolla 5-lobed, the upper inside the laterals. Stamens usually 10; anthers without an apical gland. Style 1. Fruit a legume; seeds generally without an areole; radicle normally straight.