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Brummitt, R.K., Chikuni, A.C., Lock, J.M. & Polhill, R.M. (2007) Leguminosae Subfamily Caesalpinioideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(2)
Climbing shrubs, usually armed with prickles on stem and leaves. Leaves bipinnate; leaflets opposite; stipules very small, caducous. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes or panicles; bracts inconspicuous; conspicuous hypanthium; sepals 5, imbricate, the lower curving upwards over the others; petals 5, subequal or the upper one somewhat modified. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate. Fruit pods oblong-ellipsoid, thickened along the upper margin, or flat with a broad longitudinal wing along the upper margin, indehiscent, 1–9-seeded. Seeds compressed, without endosperm. Worldwide: Five species in tropical Africa. Burundi: 1 taxon. |
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