3719.000 Mundulea (DC.) Benth.

Description of the genus

Shrub or small tree. Stipules present. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire, alternate or subopposite, silky-hairy. Flowers bluish-purple in axillary or terminal racemes. Calyx ± 2-lipped. Standard silky outside; wings eared and clawed. Pod linear, coriaceous but never woody, reluctantly dehiscent or indehiscent.

Derivation of name: from Latin: mundulus, meaning neat or trim.

Worldwide: c. 15 species, all Madagascan, apart from M. sericea in the Old World tropics and South Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
sericea (Willd.) A. Chev.	C,S	Description, Image

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Flora of Zimbabwe: Mundulea
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Mundulea

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