Neptunia
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Description
Unarmed terrestrial or aquatic herbs.
Leaves bipinnate, sensitive to the touch, rachis with or without extrafloral nectaries, pinnae eglandular;
Stipules not spinescent.
Inflorescences consisting of a pedunculate, solitary, axillary, elliptic glomerule, with bisexual flowers in the distal part, and sterile flower with ± elongated staminodes at the base.
Petals 5, free or ± fused at the base.
Stamens 10, free, all fertile in the bisexual flowers;
Seeds ± flattened, brown, with a hard brown testa with pleurogram.
Distribution
Asia present, Asia-Tropical, tropics of the Old and New World present
11 species in the tropics of the Old and New World, 5 in Asia; in Malesia 4 species.