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|accepted_name=Galactia minor
|accepted_authority=W. H. Duncan
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=37: 59. 1977
|year=1977
}}
|common_names=Duncan’s milkpea
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Galactia;Galactia minor
|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>[[Galactia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Galactia minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>from elongate, cylindric, woody taproot. <b>Stems</b> procumbent or trailing, not twining, densely short-strigose, hairs closely antrorse-appressed, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm; internodes usually shorter, sometimes longer, than largest leaflet of adjacent node. <b>Leaflets</b> 3, blades elliptic, oblanceolate-elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, (7–)9–25(–30) × (4–)7–10(–18) mm, ± leathery, veins raised on both surfaces, apex rounded to slightly retuse, rarely acute, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially and lighter colored but not glaucous, glabrous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers solitary and axillary or 2–4 in reduced pseudoracemes; axis (5–)10–20(–35) mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 7–10 mm, strigose, lobes greenish yellow to tan on inner surface when dry; corolla not persisting after anthesis, pink, lighter when dry, 11–17 mm. <b>Legumes</b> straight, 25–45 × 4–5 mm, strigose. <b>Seeds</b> 3–8.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Sandhills, sandy ridges, roadsides, pine flats, pine-scrub oak, turkey oak, longleaf pine woodlands.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Galactia minor is known from the Florida panhandle and southern Mississippi and from scattered counties in the other named states.</p><!--
--><p>Galactia minor is distinguished by procumbent, antrorsely strigulose stems, relatively small, congested leaves with glabrous adaxial surfaces and raised venation, few flowers on a short inflorescence axis, and relatively large corollas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Galactia minor
|authority=W. H. Duncan
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Sandhills, sandy ridges, roadsides, pine flats, pine-scrub oak, turkey oak, longleaf pine woodlands.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1977
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_795.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Galactia
|species=Galactia minor
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