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Annual or perennial herbs, mostly bulbous. Leaves radical or cauline, alternate or in a cluster, digitately 3-foliolate (in ours). Flowers actinomorphic, solitary or subtended by bracts in pseudumbels or cymes. Petals contorted, unguiculate. Stamens 10 in 2 rows. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent. Worldwide: 700 species, cosmopolitan but concentrated in S America and the Cape Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| corniculata L. | Description, Image |
| latifolia Kunth | Description, Image |
| pes-caprae L. | Image |
| tetraphylla Cav. |
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