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Trees. Stipules present, caducous; stipels 0. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets alternate to subopposite. Flowers in racemes or panicles; bracts and bracteoles generally small and caducous. Calyx slightly 5-lobed, upper 2 lobes ± connate. Corolla yellow to orange. Fruit flattened, indehiscent with a variously thickened, ± central, seed-bearing part and a surrounding wing. Seeds 1(-3) Derivation of name: from the Greek: pteron (wing) and carpos (fruit). Worldwide: c. 25 species in the tropics Zambia: 6 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| angolensis DC.[LR-lc] | B,N,W,C,E,S | Cb,Lp,N,E,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
| brenanii Barbosa & Torre | C,E,S | Lk,S | Description, Image |
| lucens Guill. & Perr. subsp. antunesii (Taub.) Rojo | B,W,C,S | W | Description, Image |
| rotundifolius (Sond.) Druce subsp. martinii (Dunkley) Lock | S | Lk,S | |
| rotundifolius (Sond.) Druce subsp. polyanthus (Harms) Mendonça & E.P. Sousa | C,E,S | Lk,S | Description, Image |
| tinctorius Welw.[LR-lc] | N,W,C,E | Nw,Lp,N,Mc,E,C,Lk | Description, Image |
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