Description:
Perennial herbs, erect; stems +/- pubescent. Leaves mostly +/- basal, palmatisect, often almost to base, palmatinerved; petioles long. Flowers bisexual, irregular, in terminal, racemose or paniculate inflorescences. Sepals 5, petaloid, posterior one produced into a spur. Petals 2-5, 2 posterior ones with spurs +/- joined and fitting into calyx spur. Stamens many, often with flattened filaments. Carpels 3(4), sessile; ovules many. Fruit of 3 pubescent follicles.
Distribution:
Species +/- 320, mostly N temperate, also trop. African mountains; sthn trop. Afr. 3, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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