Lebeckia

Shrubs, undershrubs, or sometimes herbaceous, sometimes spinescent and not very leafy. Leaves variable, (1)3-foliolate, usually petiolate; leaflets filiform, linear, narrowly spathulate or obovate; stipules sometimes present and then conspicuous. Flowers few to many in terminal or unilateral racemes. Calyx usually obliquely campanulate; lobes equal or subequal, shorter than tube. Petals: vexillum broad, reflexed with bent, channelled claw, glabrous or pubescent on outside; wings oblong or obovate, often eared, sometimes with transverse ridges, clawed; keel usually planoconvex, often gibbous, sometimes saccate, clawed. Stamens monadelphous, with tube split to base; anthers unequal. Ovary sessile or stalked, usually linear, several- to many-ovuled; style incurved, with minutely capitate stigma. Pod dehiscent, many-seeded, sometimes membranous, usually tipped with persistent style. Seeds on short funicles. x= 9.