3860.000 Amphicarpaea Elliot ex Nutt.

Climbing herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipels present. Flowers in lax racemes; bracts conspicuous, striate, bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-lobed, with the two upper lobes connate; corolla small; standard obovate, glabrous. Ovary shortly stipitate, many-ovuled; style geniculate, filiform, beardless; stigma capitate, terminal, or in cleistogamous flowers the style short with the stigma angled such that it is in contact with the anthers. Fruit pod linear or falcate, compressed. Seeds variously coloured, sub-globose or ovoid, with a short lateral hilum.

Worldwide: Species 3 in America and Asia with one species in tropical Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.