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|accepted_name=Diphysa
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|place=7, 28. 1760
|year=1760
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Diphysa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Diphysa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek dis, double, and physa, bladder, alluding to legume’s inflated membranous sides in D. carthagenensis Jacquin, the type species
|volume=Volume 11
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees], unarmed [spinose]. <b>Stems</b> erect, pubescent [glabrous], hairs glandular, fine-appressed to spreading; peduncles and pedicels glandular-hirsute. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present; petiolate; leaflets [13–]19–25[–35], usually alternate, sometimes subopposite, stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–7-flowered, terminal and axillary, racemes; bracts present; bracteoles present. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx campanulate, tubular basally, lobes 5; corolla usually yellowish; stamens 10, diadelphous; anthers dorsifixed, ± uniform. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, stipitate, slightly inflated [to bladderlike], straight, oblong [lanceoloid-ellipsoid], dehiscent, pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> 4–14, oblong.</span><!--

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|distribution=Arizona;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 19 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Most species in Diphysa have inflated, bladderlike fruit segments, reminiscent of Sesbania. The segments in Diphysa thurberi, however, are barely or not at all inflated.</p>
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name=Diphysa
|author=Robert H. Mohlenbrock
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=Arizona;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|publication year=1760
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_732.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Diphysa
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