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leather-root
Orbexilum
Orbexilum, leather-root, is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. It can be distinguished from other genera in the Psoraleeae by "thick glabrous pod walls that are distinctively rugose and by calyx that is scarcely accrescent."
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Sampson's snakeroot
speciesOrbexilum pedunculatum

French-grass
speciesOrbexilum onobrychis

Eastern Sampson's-Snakeroot
speciesOrbexilum psoralioides

lupine leatherroot
speciesOrbexilum lupinellus

Single-stem scurfpea
speciesOrbexilum simplex

Pineland Leather-root
speciesOrbexilum virgatum
Orbexilum melanocarpum
speciesOrbexilum melanocarpum
Orbexilum chiapasanum
speciesOrbexilum chiapasanum
Orbexilum oliganthum
speciesOrbexilum oliganthum

Falls-of-the-Ohio scurfpea
speciesOrbexilum stipulatum
Bigleaf Scurfpea
speciesOrbexilum macrophyllum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 81834.