Ormocarpum
Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs or small trees, often glutinous, sometimes harshly setose. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets many; stipulate. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered, axillary racemes. Calyx with broadly campanulate tube; lobes longer than tube, 2 upper lobes connivent or shortly connate, lowest the longest. Petals: vexillum with curved claw; wings clawed; keel incurved, clawed. Stamens monadelphous; staminal tube often splitting to give 2 bundles of 5; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, stalked, several- to many-ovuled; style inflexed, with terminal stigma. Pod linear, compressed, constricted into 2 or more indehiscent segments. Seeds light brown, +/- elliptic, compressed. x= 10, 12, 13 (1 report each).
Distribution:
Species +/- 20, in tropical parts of Old World and Africa; 2 in sthn Afr.: Ormocarpum kirkii S.Moore and O. trichocarpum (Taub.) Engl., northern parts of Namibia, the four northern provinces to KwaZulu-Natal.