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Shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate with up to 11 alternate leaflets; petiolules unwrinkled; leaflets leathery, acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal raceme; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Calyx lobes broad, much shorter than the tube. Corolla white, pink or mauve; wings and claw with well-marked auricles. Pod shortly stipitate, flat, markedly asymmetric, glabrous or glabrescent, beaked, dehiscing into thin stiff woody twisted valves. Seeds with a short white cup-shaped aril.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Craibia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=731
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Craibia

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Craibia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains the following species:

Craibia was named for William Grant Craib (1882–1933), a British botanist who was an Assistant for India at Kew and a professor at Aberdeen University, the author of Contributions to the Flora of Siam (1912) and Florae siamensis enumeratio (1925). The genus Craibia was published in 1911 by British botanist Stephen Troyte Dunn.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ (PlantZAfrica.com; CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names).
  2. ^ The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants. Plant Names C-F
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Craibia: Brief Summary

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Craibia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains the following species:

Craibia atlantica Craibia brevicaudata

Craibia was named for William Grant Craib (1882–1933), a British botanist who was an Assistant for India at Kew and a professor at Aberdeen University, the author of Contributions to the Flora of Siam (1912) and Florae siamensis enumeratio (1925). The genus Craibia was published in 1911 by British botanist Stephen Troyte Dunn.

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