Aganope
Description:
Climbing, evergreen shrubs. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate; lateral leaflets in +/- 3-5 pairs, opposite or subopposite, somewhat coriaceous, glossy above. Inflorescence : a thyrsoid panicle, terminal or in axils of upper leaves; bracts linear to ovate, often caducous. Calyx campanulate, minutely 5-toothed. Disc , if apparent, generally +/- 10-lobed. Corolla creamy white; standard occasionally greenish, sometimes marked with pink, +/- glabrous, shortly clawed; wings generally free from keel, sometimes lightly coherent; keel petals +/- as long as wings, partially coherent along lower margin. Stamens diadelphous, vexillary one free; anthers all similar, dorsifixed. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate; style tapering, terminating in a minute stigma; ovules +/- 10. Fruit indehiscent, flattened, elongate, margined with a wing on one or both sides, venose; valves coherent between seeds. Seeds +/- oblong-obovoid; radicle short, spreading in mature seeds.
Distribution:
Species 4, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Aganope lucida (Baker) Polhill, Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Derris Lour. in part; Baker: 244 (1871). Ostryoderris Dunn in part; De Sousa: 367 (1966).