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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 Malawi: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| arabicus L. | S | |
| discolor E. Mey. subsp. discolor | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| goetzei Harms | N | |
| mlanjeanus J.B. Gillett[End] | S | |
| namulensis Brand | N | Description, Image |
| robsonii E.D. Martins & D.D. Sokoloff | N |
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