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Nov 10, 2011 7:09 AM CST
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I thought so too Myriam, it has two extra filaments either side of the centre thing which may be the pistle. Even though the flower description indicates shape etc is variable I think what we see in the middle can give a clue.

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The first part of the flower description:

Flowers in racemes (1.5-) 2.5-8 cm long, pedicels (12-) 15-25 mm long, bracts sub-membranous, linear, lanceolate, or subulate, (1.5-) 2-4.5 mm long, caducous as pedicels begin to elongate; calyx lobes yellowish green, yellowish brown, or completely yellow, the outer ones relatively firm, ovate-elliptic, 4-6.5 mm long, the inner ones submembranous, oblong-obovate or suborbicular, 6.5-10 mm long; petals bright yellow, the standard obovate to obovate-flabellate, deeply emarginate, the others obovate, the longest petal 12-16 mm long; staminodes 3, obovate or suborbicular, (1.7-) 2-2.6 mm long


That just about covers all shapes! "staminoids 3" is the part which I think eliminates it.

More searching is in order, the good thing is the more searching you do the more google brings up so who knows, we might yet find it! A systematic search of the list coming up. Hilarious!

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