Flowers of papilionaceous plants resemble what?
Papilionaceous flower petal per flower, namely the banner. The corolla of clovers tends to be monopetalous, as all five petals are often fused below to form a tube. To the contrary, plants in the Mimosoideae subfamily of legumes have the petals reduced, and have numerous stamens arranged in showy spikes. In the Caesalpinioideae subfamily of legumes the upper petal is initially enveloped by the lateral petals, before the petals unfold to assume a radial five-fold symmetry. Papilionaceous flower Papilionaceous flowers (from Latin: "papilion", a butterfly) are flowers with the characteristic irregular and butterfly-like corolla found in many, though not all, plants of
Papilionaceous flower a membranous sheath at its base, that envelops the single, superior pistil in a tube. The tube divides into nine filaments, which trace the base of the keel petals that enclose them. The single free filament lies above them. In "Smithia" the two sets are equal, with 5 stamens in each. Many papilionaceous flowers however have ten distinct stamens. Genera that conform to the latter morphology include "Sophora", "Anagyris", "Cercis", "Daviesia", "Dillwynia", "Gompholobium", "Mirbelia" and "Pultenaea". Charles Darwin observed that the fertility of plants with papilionaceous flowers depend to an important extent on visits by bees, and it is accepted