Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs, rigid, sometimes spinescent. Leaves petiolate, digitately 3-foliolate; stipules small or 0. Flowers few to many in terminal, often unilateral racemes; bracteoles usually very small. Calyx with campanulate tube, somewhat 2-lipped; lobes shorter than tube. Petals: vexillum standing apart, ovate to obovate, reflexed, with linear or linear-spatulate claw; wings usually shorter than vexillum and keel, broadest near base, clawed; keel incurved, longer than vexillum, long-clawed. Stamens monadelphous; staminal tube split to base; anthers unequal. Ovary stalked, elliptic, few-ovuled, glabrous; stigma minutely capitate. Pod stipitate, indehiscent, oblong, oblong-elliptic or orbicular in lateral view, winged on upper suture, sharp and thin along the lower; valves sometimes ridged. Seeds 1-3, reniform, on filiform funicles. x= 9.
Distribution:
Species +/- 10, sthn Afr., from Namaqualand (Northern Cape) to George (Western Cape).
Classification:
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