Erect, prostrate or climbing perennial herbs or shrubs. Tendrils opposite the leaves or 0. Stipules present. Leaves digitately 3-9-foliolate, rarely simple and entire or lobed. Inflorescences of leaf-opposed or axillary corymbose cymes. Flowers 4-merous. Fl. bud cylindric to flask-shaped, constricted at or near the middle. Petals hooded at the apex, becoming reflexed after flowering. Disk divided into 4 ± fleshy glands. Style simple. Fruit usually with 1 seed. Worldwide: c. 250 species in warm areas; many in Africa Zambia: 40 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abercornense Wild & R.B. Drumm. [VU] | ||
| bambuseti (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| bororense (Klotzsch) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| buchananii (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| chloroleucum (Welw. ex Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| cirrhosum (Thunb.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. subsp. transvaalense (Szyszyl.) Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| congestum (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| crotalarioides (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| cyphopetalum (Fresen.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| elisabethvilleanum (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | B,N,W | Description, Image |
| fugosioides (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| gigantophyllum (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| glandulosissimum (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| hermannioides Wild & R.B. Drumm. [End] [LR-nt] | B,N,W | Description, Image |
| heterotrichum (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| hildebrandtii (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| jaegeri (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| junceum (Webb) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| kaessneri (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| kirkianum (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | S | Description, Image |
| lovemorei Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| lynesii (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| manikense (De Wild.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| mildbraedii (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| nanellum (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. [End] [LR-nt] | N | Description, Image |
| obovato-oblongum (De Wild.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | W | Description, Image |
| princeae (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| rhodesiae (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm | B,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| richardsiae Wild & R.B. Drumm. [LR-lc] | ||
| rotundistipulatum Wild & R.B. Drumm. [VU] | ||
| saxicola (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. [LR-lc] | ||
| septemfoliolatum Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| stenolobum (Welw. ex Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| subciliatum (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | W,C,E | Description, Image |
| tenuissimum (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. [End] [LR-nt] | N | Description, Image |
| vandenbrandeanum (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | E | Description, Image |
| vanmeelii (Lawalrée) Wild & R.B. Drumm. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| viscosum (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. [NrEnd] | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| wittei (Staner) Wild & R.B. Drumm. [NrEnd] [LR-nt] | N,W | Description, Image |
| zombense (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. |