FIGURE 8 in Molecular phylogeny and diversification timing of the Chamaecrista sect. Absus subsect. Absus ser. Paniculatae, a newly circumscribed and predominantly endemic of the Cerrado Biome group

FIGURE 8. Diagnostic morphological characters of the species of the Paniculatae series: A: shrubby erect habit in Ch. claussenii. B: shrubby decumbent habit in Ch. ustulata. C: arboreal habit in Ch. orbiculata. D: longitudinally fissured bark in Ch. celiae. E: waxy bark in Ch. claussenii. F: alternate spiral leaves in Ch. claussenii. G: long and divaricate leaflets in Ch. claussenii. H: prominent veins on both sides and coriaceous in Ch. claussenii. I: inflorescence axes viscous in Ch. celiae. J: paniculate inflorescences in Ch. claussenii. K: racemous inflorescences in Ch. tocantinensis. L. asymmetric flowers with adaxial petal similar to a standard in Ch. orbiculata.