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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 Burundi: 57 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 | Description, Image | |
| petitiana (A.Rich.) Walp. | ||
| quarrei Baker f.[Agg] | ||
| quartiniana A.Rich. | ||
| recta Steud. ex A. Rich. | Description, Image | |
| retusa L. L.[Agg] | ||
| sertulifera Taub. | Description, Image | |
| 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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