3698.000 Lotus L.

Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves (in ours) 5-foliolate, the basal pair often resembling stipules; true stipules reduced to dark glands or 0. Corolla yellow, pink, cream or white, glabrous. Fruit straight, narrowly cylindric, dehiscent into 2 twisted valves.

Worldwide: 100 species, mainly in northern temperate regions, extending to mountainous areas of Africa and Australia

Burundi: 1 taxon.