Polygala sect. Polygala
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Description
Little- to much-branched annuals to perennial herbs or low chamaephytes with woody base, or (not in Mal.) shrubs or small trees, sometimes nearly aphyllous.
Inflorescences raceme-like, terminal, (supra-)axillary, or in the forks, unbranched, many or few-flowered.
Sepals persistent in fruit, the lowest pair sometimes (not in Mal.) partly or wholly connate, or very rarely (not in Mai.) all or only the lateral ones caducous before fruit-setting.
Capsule mostly more or less orbicular, sometimes elongated, usually narrowly or sometimes widely winged.
Seeds various, usually at micropylar side with a 2- or 3-lobed aril, sometimes (not in Mal.) with a translucent appendage along the raphe to the chalazal side;