Description:
Much-branched shrubs, with silky or villous indumentum. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules small and caducous or absent. Inflorescence terminal, racemose. Calyx 2-lipped, upper lip deeply bifid, lower one tridentate or 3-lobed. Corolla : standard suborbicular, slightly longer than the obovate or oblong wings; keel much incurved or shortly beaked. Stamens all joined into a closed tube; anthers alternately long and short. Ovary sessile, many-ovulate. Pod linear-oblong, compressed, dehiscent, 3-8-seeded, glandular-tuberculate or muricate. Seeds mostly oblong-ovate in outline, compressed, smooth, with a small hilum; rim-aril inconspicuous.
Distribution:
Species 15, Mediterranean and Atlantic islands, with one outlier on trop. African mountains: Adenocarpus mannii (Hook.f.) Hook.f.; sthn trop. Afr.: Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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