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Mackinder, B. et al. (2001) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5)
Trailing or climbing perennial herbs. Stems densely covered in ferrugineous hispid hairs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets lobed, with dense appressed silvery hairs on the undersurface; stipules and stipels present. Inflorescences 2–8-flowered axillary pseudoracemes. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair partly connate, covered in ferrugineous hispid hairs; corolla glabrous; petals clawed; standard obovate to broadly obovate, auriculate, without appendages. Ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, oblong, hairy, 3-ovuled. Fruit a pod, oblong, compressed, septate, dehiscent, covered in dark brown hairs, 1–3-seeded. Seeds black, oblong to reniform; aril poorly developed. Worldwide: One species in tropical Africa. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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