Martins, E.S. et al. (2003) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7)
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 Zambia: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aequinoctiale Welw. ex Baker | N | |
| fischeri Taub. | E | |
| macrophyllum Harms | N,W | |
| rupestre (E.Mey.) Walp. subsp. aberdaricum (Harms) Polhill | N,E | |
| tomentosum (Andrews) Druce | N,W,E | Description, Image |