Rothia

Herbs, annual, diffuse, prostrate or spreading, pilose. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules small or foliaceous, solitary or in pairs. Flowers solitary or 1-5 in short racemes opposite leaves; bracts and bracteoles setaceous. Calyx with campanulate tube; lobes narrow, subequal, upper 2 broader and falcate. Petals: vexillum ovate or oblong; wings narrow; keel similar to wings. Stamens monadelphous, with somewhat split sheath; anthers small, uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled; style straight, glabrous, with terminal stigma. Pod oblong, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, inflated or scarsely so, when mature gaping along adaxial suture. Seeds many, on short, filiform funicle. x= 6, 7.