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Martins, E.S. et al. (2003) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7)
Herbs, shrubs or rarely small trees (capensis and pallidicaulis). Stipules filiform to leaf-like, or 0. Leaves simple, 1-foliolate or digitately 3(-7)-foliolate, usually petiolate. Flowers usually yellow, variously marked, less often white or blue, usually in terminal leaf-opposed or less commonly axillary racemes or heads; bract and paired bracteoles usually present. Calyx usually with 5 subequal lobes. Standard usually with 2 appendages at the base inside; keel rounded to angled, generally with a well-developed beak. Stamens joined in a sheath; anthers arranged alternately with 5 long, basifixed and 5, smaller, dorsifixed. Style curved or geniculate, usually with 1-2 lines of hairs in the upper part, the basal portion thicker than the upper. Legume usually inflated, 1-many seeded. Worldwide: 600 species throughout the tropics (and subtropics), most numerous in eastern and southern tropical Africa Caprivi: 57 cultivated taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | Content |
aculeata De Wild.[Agg] | |
aculeata De Wild. subsp. claessensii (De Wild.) Polhill | |
adenocarpoides Taub. | |
agatiflora Schweinf.[Agg] | |
agatiflora Schweinf. subsp. imperialis (Taub.) Polhill | Image |
alexandri Baker f. | Description, Image |
andromedifolia R.Wilczek | |
anthyllopsis Welw. ex Baker | Description, Image |
axillaris Aiton | |
boehmii Taub. | |
bongensis Baker f. | |
calycina Schrank | |
caudata Welw. ex Baker | Description, Image |
cephalotes Steud. ex A.Rich. | Description, Image |
chirindae Baker f. | |
chrysochlora Baker f. ex Harms | |
cleomifolia Welw. ex Baker | Description, Image |
congesta Polhill | |
cylindrocarpa DC. | |
deserticola Taub. ex Baker f. | |
dewildemaniana R.Wilczek | |
germainii Wilczek | |
glauca Willd. | Description, Image |
goreensis Guill. & Perr. | Description, Image |
graminicola Baker f. | |
hyssopifolia Klotzsch | |
incana L. subsp. purpurascens (Lam.) Milne-Redh. | Description, Image |
karagwensis Taub. | |
laburnifolia L.[Agg] | |
laburnifolia L. subsp. laburnifolia | Description, Image |
laburnifolia L. subsp. tenuicarpa Polhill | |
lachnocarpoides Engl. | Description, Image |
lachnophora A. Rich. | Description, Image |
lebrunii Baker f. | |
lukomae Baker f. | |
mesopontica Taub.[Agg] | |
mesopontica Taub. subsp. glabrescens (R.Wilczek) Milne-Redh. | |
mesopontica Taub. subsp. mesopontica | |
minutissima Baker f. | |
natalitia Meisn.[Agg] | |
ochroleuca G. Don | Description, Image |
ononoides Benth. | Description, Image |
oocarpa Baker | |
pallida Aiton[Agg] | |
parvula Welw. ex Baker | |
petitiana (A.Rich.) Walp. | |
quarrei Baker f.[Agg] | |
quartiniana A.Rich. | |
recta Steud. ex A. Rich. | Description, Image |
retusa L. L.[Agg] | |
sertulifera Taub. | |
shirensis (Baker f.) Milne-Redh. | Description, Image |
spartea Baker | |
spinosa Hochst. ex Benth. | |
subcapitata De Wild.[Agg] | |
vallicola Baker f. | |
xanthoclada Bojer ex Benth. |
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