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Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves (in ours) 5-foliolate, the basal pair often resembling stipules; true stipules reduced to dark glands or 0. Corolla yellow, pink, cream or white, glabrous. Fruit straight, narrowly cylindric, dehiscent into 2 twisted valves. Worldwide: 100 species, mainly in northern temperate regions, extending to mountainous areas of Africa and Australia Zambia: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| arabicus L. | S | S | |
| discolor E. Mey. subsp. discolor | N,E | Mc | Description, Image |
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