3673.000 Argyrolobium Eckl. & Zeyh.

Martins, E.S. et al. (2003) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7)

Description of the genus

Herbs or small shrubs, often silky or villous. Stipules present; stipels 0. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed few-many-flowered racemes, often ± umbellate, rarely solitary. Calyx 2-lipped; 2 upper lobes free or shortly united; 3 lower united into a shortly 3-lobed lip. Corolla yellow; standard without appendages; wings often with rows of crescent-shaped folds between the upper veins. Stamens united into a closed tube. Pod linear-oblong, flattened.

Worldwide: 70 species from South Africa to the tropical African highlands, Madagascar, Mediterranean and India

Zimbabwe: 5 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
eylesii Baker f.[End]	W,C,S	Description
harveyanum Oliv.	E	Description
rupestre (E. Mey.) Walp. subsp. rupestre	C,E,S	Description, Image
tomentosum (Andrews) Druce	E	Description, Image
tuberosum Eckl. & Zeyh.	E	Description, Image

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