Perennial herbs (in ours). Leaves digitately 3-foliolate.Inflorescences short leaf-opposed racemes. Stipules dentate. Flowers yellow to cream, sometimes flushed with purple. Calyx 5-lobed. Keel petals helically coiled. Style glabrous, also helically coiled. Pods glabrous, inflated. Worldwide: 5 species in tropical Africa south of the Equator Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |