Erect to prostrate shrubs or small trees, sometimes with stalked glands. Tendrils absent. Leaves alternate or crowded on spur shoots, composed of 2 united leaflets, emarginate to shallowly bilobed, palmately nerved, petiolate, stipulate. Flowers in elongate racemes or 1–several on spur shoots, with bracts and paired bracteoles. Hypanthium obconic to cupular. Calyx with 5 relatively short lobes. Petals 5, yellow, ± marked red, subsimilar, long clawed, the adaxial one slightly modified. Stamens 10, all fertile, in 2 whorls of 5, of two lengths; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary long stipitate; style elongate; stigma small. Pods stipitate, oblong-reniform, dehiscent, the valves thinly textured and not twisting, 1–10-seeded. Seeds compressed, ovate in outline, slightly produced to the small subapical hilum.
Worldwide: Species 2, in southern Africa. Botswana: 1 taxon. |
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