Source:
SSA
Description:
Herbs, shrublets, or shrubs, rarely spinescent. Leaves imparipinnate, stipulate. Flowers in pedunculate, axillary racemes, rarely solitary and terminal, bracteate. Calyx with campanulate tube; lobes subequal. Petals: vexillum sometimes bilobed, sessile or shortly clawed; wings usually eared, clawed; keel straight or incurved, clawed. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, 2-many-ovuled; style incurved, bearded in front below apex. Pod membranous, slightly inflated or compressed, opening at apex. Seeds reniform, with filiform funicle. x= 8.
Distribution:
Species over 50, Africa; +/- 47 in sthn Afr., widespread.
Classification:
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