Martins, E.S. et al. (2003) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7)
Herbs, shrubs or rarely small trees (capensis and pallidicaulis). Stipules filiform to leaf-like, or 0. Leaves simple, 1-foliolate or digitately 3(-7)-foliolate, usually petiolate. Flowers usually yellow, variously marked, less often white or blue, usually in terminal leaf-opposed or less commonly axillary racemes or heads; bract and paired bracteoles usually present. Calyx usually with 5 subequal lobes. Standard usually with 2 appendages at the base inside; keel rounded to angled, generally with a well-developed beak. Stamens joined in a sheath; anthers arranged alternately with 5 long, basifixed and 5, smaller, dorsifixed. Style curved or geniculate, usually with 1-2 lines of hairs in the upper part, the basal portion thicker than the upper. Legume usually inflated, 1-many seeded. Worldwide: 600 species throughout the tropics (and subtropics), most numerous in eastern and southern tropical Africa Zimbabwe: 86 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
abbreviata Baker f. | C | |
alexandri Baker f. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
anisophylla (Hiern) Welw. ex Baker f. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
anthyllopsis Welw. ex Baker | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
barkae Schweinf. subsp. barkae | N,W,C | |
barnabassii Dinter ex Baker f. | N,W,E,S | |
bequaertii Baker f. | N,C | |
bernieri Baill. | E | |
capensis Jacq. | C,E | |
caudata Welw. ex Baker | E | Description, Image |
cephalotes Steud. ex A.Rich. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
chirindae Baker f. | C,E | |
cleomifolia Welw. ex Baker | E | Description, Image |
collina Polhill [NrEnd?] | C,E,S | Description, Image |
cupricola Leteinturier [End] | N | |
cylindrostachys Welw. ex Baker | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
damarensis Engl. | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
deserticola Taub. ex Baker f. | N,C | |
distans Benth. subsp. macaulayae (Baker f.) Polhill | N,W,C | |
distans Benth. subsp. macrotropis (Baker f.) Polhill | C | Description, Image |
distans Benth. subsp. mediocris Polhill | W,S | |
eremicola Baker f. subsp. parviflora Polhill | N | |
filicaulis Welw. ex Baker var. filicaulis | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
flavicarinata Baker f. | W | Description, Image |
gazensis Baker f. subsp. gazensis | N,E,S | Description, Image |
gazensis Baker f. subsp. herbacea Polhill | C,E,S | |
glauca Willd. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
goreensis Guill. & Perr. | N | Description, Image |
grandistipulata Harms | N | Description, Image |
heidmannii Schinz | W,E | |
hyssopifolia Klotzsch | E | |
incana L. subsp. incana | E | |
incana L. subsp. purpurascens (Lam.) Milne-Redh. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
insignis Polhill [NrEnd] | E | |
inyangensis Polhill [End] | C,E | Description, Image |
juncea L. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
kapiriensis De Wild. | W,C,E | |
kipandensis Baker f. | N | Description, Image |
kuiririensis Baker f. | N | |
laburnifolia L. subsp. australis (Baker f.) Polhill | E,S | Description |
laburnifolia L. subsp. laburnifolia | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
lachnocarpoides Engl. | E,S | Description, Image |
lachnophora A. Rich. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
lanceolata E. Mey. subsp. lanceolata | C,E,S | Description, Image |
lanceolata E. Mey. subsp. prognatha Polhill | N,C,E | |
lotoides Benth. | W,S | |
macrocarpa E. Mey. subsp. matopoensis Polhill [End] | W | |
microcarpa Hochst. ex Benth. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
monteiroi Taub. ex Baker f. var. galpinii Burtt Davy ex I. Verd. | S | |
monteiroi Taub. ex Baker f. var. monteiroi | S | |
natalitia Meisn. var. natalitia | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
natalitia Meisn. var. rutshuruensis De Wild. | E | Description, Image |
ochroleuca G. Don | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
orientalis Burtt Davy ex I. Verd. subsp. allenii (I. Verd.) Polhill & A. Schreib. | N,W | |
pallida Aiton var. pallida | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
pallidicaulis Harms | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
phylicoides Wild [NrEnd] [LR-nt] | E | Description, Image |
pisicarpa Welw. ex Baker | N,W,C,S | |
platysepala Harv. | N,W,E,S | |
podocarpa DC. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
polysperma Kotschy | N | |
recta Steud. ex A. Rich. | C,E | Description, Image |
reptans Taub. | N | |
reptans- intermediates with pisicarpa | N | |
rhodesiae Baker f. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
rogersii Baker f. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
schinzii Baker f. | S | |
schlechteri Baker f. | C | |
senegalensis (Pers.) Bacle ex DC. | N,E | Description, Image |
serpentinicola Leteinturier & Polhill [End] | N | |
shirensis (Baker f.) Milne-Redh. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
sparsifolia Baker | N | |
spartea Baker | C,E | |
sphaerocarpa Perr. ex DC. subsp. sphaerocarpa | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
spinosa Hochst. ex Benth. | N,C,E | Description |
steudneri Schweinf. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
stolzii (Baker f.) Milne-Redh. ex Polhill | C,E | |
subcapitata De Wild. var. subcapitata | E | |
ulbrichiana Harms | N | |
valida Baker | C,E | Description, Image |
variegata Welw. ex Baker | N,C,E | Description, Image |
vasculosa Wall. ex Benth. | E,S | |
virgulata Klotzsch [Agg] | ||
virgulata Klotzsch subsp. grantiana (Harv.) Polhill | S | Description, Image |
virgulata Klotzsch subsp. longistyla (Baker f.) Polhill | N,C,S | |
virgulata Klotzsch subsp. virgulata | N,W,E,S | Description |