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|accepted_name=Nissolia
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|place=7, 27. 1760
|year=1760
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chaetocalyx
|authority=
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pseudomachaerium
|authority=Hassler
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Nissolia
|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>[[Nissolia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Guillaume Nissole, 1647–1735, French botanist
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> perennial, herbaceous or ± woody, unarmed. <b>Stems</b> climbing, twining, or prostrate, pubescent to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present, usually caducous; petiolate; leaflets 5(or 7), stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces puberulent, glabrate, or glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–8-flowered, axillary, fascicles or racemes [panicles]; bracts present, stipulelike; bracteoles usually absent. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx nearly actinomorphic, campanulate, lobes 5; corolla yellow [white or purplish]; stamens 10, monadelphous, filament tube splitting adaxially at maturity; anthers dorsifixed. <b>Fruits</b> loments, stipitate, flattened, lanceoloid, segments breaking apart, individual ones indehiscent, pubescent, glabrate, or glabrescent; segments 2–4, proximal 1–4 segments fertile, distal segment sterile, flat, winglike. <b>Seeds</b> 1–4, reddish brown, laterally compressed, reniform, sublustrous; hilum relatively small, circular.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;warm-temperate and tropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 14 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits with sterile segment 6–11 mm, fertile segments 7–10 mm; stems prostrate; leaf axis recurved; leaflets usually folded when dry.
|[[Nissolia wislizeni|Nissolia wislizeni]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Fruits with sterile segment 10–30 mm, fertile segments 4–7 mm; stems climbing or twining; leaf axis ± straight; leaflets usually not folded when dry.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corollas 14–20 mm; pedicels 9–11 mm; calyx tube 4.5–6 × 4–5 mm, lobes 1.5–4.5 mm; leaflets 5 or 7.
|[[Nissolia platycalyx|Nissolia platycalyx]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corollas (8–)10–12 mm; pedicels 5–7 mm; calyx tube (2–)3–4 × 2–3 mm, lobes 2–4 mm; leaflets 5.
|[[Nissolia schottii|Nissolia schottii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Nissolia
|author=Velva E. Rudd†;Michael A. Vincent
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Chaetocalyx;Pseudomachaerium
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;Central America;South America;warm-temperate and tropical regions.
|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_699.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Nissolia
}}<!--

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