Agrimonia

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Agrimonia

Description

Perennial herbs with creeping rhizomes and erect leafy stems, usually hairy and often glandular. Leaves interruptedly imparipinnate. Stipules large. Inflorescences terminal, spike-like racemes. Flowers rather small, 5-merous, bisexual. Sepals persistent, connivent after anthesis. Petals yellow, rarely white. Stamens 5-numerous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present), S Africa present, S America present, northern hemisphere present
About 15 species, in temperate regions and montane in the tropics, on the Northern Hemisphere, in S America and S Africa, one species in Malesia (Java).