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Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Stipules 0. Leaves alternate, opposite or fasciculate, often ± succulent. Inflorescences terminal or lateral, cymose, often umbel-like. Flowers bisexual, whitish or greenish. Per. segments generally unequal, 5 , free. Stamens (5-)7. Ovary superior, with two 1-ovulate loculi. Style 1. Stigmas 2. Fruit dehiscing into 2 mericarps. Mericarps indehiscent, 1-seeded with outer face reticulate, rugose, spine-tipped or ± smooth; base often auriculate; margin winged or not. Worldwide: 20 species, most in southern Africa, also tropical Africa, Arabia and Pakistan Botswana: 10 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aethiopicum Burm. f. var. aethiopicum | ||
| aethiopicum Burm. f. var. glabrum Moq. | SW | |
| argute-carinatum Wawra & Peyr. var. kwebense (N.E. Br.) Friedr. | ||
| fenestratum (Fenzl) Heimerl var. fenestratum | Description, Image | |
| myosotis H. Walt. var. myosotis | N,SW | |
| pterocarpum (J. Gay) Heimerl var. pterocarpum | Description, Image | |
| sulcatum (Klotzsch) Hutch. var. sulcatum | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| viscosum (J. Gay) Fenzl subsp. viscosum var. viscosum | N | Description |
| viscosum (J. Gay) Fenzl subsp. viscosum var. krausii Friedr. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| viscosum (J. Gay) Fenzl subsp. viscosum var. dubium Friedr. | Description |
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