Ophrestia

Perennial herbs, branched from base, with slightly flexuous, ascending or procumbent stems. Leaves subsessile to petiolate, 1-5-jugate; stipules slender, linear to linear-subulate; leaflets +/- elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse to acute, sometimes retuse, midrib with 5-7 lateral nerves on each side, nerves prominent below, impressed above, looping back and not forming a marginal nerve. Flowers mauve, in axillary racemes, rarely clusters, with peduncles sometimes longer than leaves. Calyx usually densely hirsute, somewhat 2-lipped; tube campanulate, slightly oblique at base; lobes ovate to lanceolate, with 2 uppermost connate beyond halfway. Petals: vexillum mainly oblong, with channelled claw and 2 ears at junction of claw and limb; wings broadly linear, clawed, sometimes eared; keel +/- planoconvex in outline, clawed and sometimes eared. Stamens monadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovary linear; style short, hooked; stigma capitate. Pod +/- oblanceolate. Seeds oblong-ovoid; hilum short, central; rim-aril developed, cartilaginous. x= 10, 11 (1 report).