Talk:Leobordea platycarpa
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This should be checked
[edit]It's all copied mostly from one source and checking should be easy, but since it has the usual assortment of incorrect Carol Spears' copy and pastes it should be checked before being included in the article. The plant is an annual, so it doesn't have a stem that "survives from season to season." This was, again, just a misreading of the material, but the rest needs checked rather than left in the article unchecked. --Blechnic (talk) 02:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Lotononis platycarpa is an sprawling annual plant with a very short main stem and numerous slender prostrate branches, each from 5 centimetres (2.0 in) to 50 centimetres (20 in) long.
- Stems and leaves
- Stems are covered with fine hairs and survive from season to season with the other stems that grow from an undivided taproot. Leaves are three compound leaflets which grow opposite on flowering shoots, each leaflet is 4 millimetres (0.16 in) to 8 millimetres (0.31 in) long and 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) to 3 millimetres (0.12 in) wide, oval to lanceolate with slightly pointed tips. Bald or with soft fine hairs above and always with soft fine hairs below. Leaf stalks are about the same size as the leaf they hold or a little shorter.
- Flowers
- Flowers appear singly or in clusters of several from the nodes and are attached directly to the base stem. Bracts are 1 millimetre (0.039 in) to 2.5 millimetres (0.098 in) long and gradually tapered. The upper petal is pale yellow, narrowly eliptical, with many short, soft hairs on the outside and shorter than the lower petals. The side petals are also shorter than the lower petals -- the lower petals being 6 millimetres (0.24 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long, narrow and slightly upturned to a bluntly pointed reddish tip and very hairy.
- Seeds
- Seed pods are 4 millimetres (0.16 in) to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long, narrow and oblong and tapered at the base. Downcurved slightly at the tip, usually with hairs but sometimes not; pods contain 10 seeds. Seeds are 1 millimetre (0.039 in) to 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) long, smooth, brown and heart-shaped.[1]