Description:
Climbing shrubs or lianes. Leaves digitately trifoliolate; leaflets petiolulate, often stipellate. Inflorescences axillary racemes; bracts and bracteoles short, caducous. Flowers showy, articulated below pedicel. Calyx turbinate; lobes 5, deltoid or lanceolate, upper 2 +/- connate. Petals all free; vexillum orbicular; wings and carina ovate. Stamens 10 or 11; filaments fused at least towards base into a tube with free portions recurved in bud; anthers uniform, linear, dorsifixed. Ovary sericeous, stipitate; stipe laterally fused to receptacle in lower part; ovules many; style filiform, involute in bud; stigma terminal, capitate, small. Pod broadly linear to oblong, flattened, few-seeded, coriaceous, dehiscent into 2 valves; base of style persistent. Seeds +/- rhombic, flattened.
Distribution:
Species 2, tropical W African coast; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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