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Vexillary stamen free or fused at the base; anthers uniform.

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Ovary linear, 3–8-ovuled, with a thickened glabrous area forming a small boss at the base of the style; style thickened below, bent over at an angle of up to 90°, glabrous; stigma small, capitate, glabrous.

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Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, very unusually 1-foliolate or 4–5-foliolate; stipules not spurred, persistent; stipels present.

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• 5
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Inflorescences axillary, falsely racemose, the flowers in fascicles along the rhachis which is slightly thickened at the insertion of the pedicels; bracts soon falling; bracteoles absent.

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Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped, the lower lip 3-fid, the upper pair of lobes joined to form a bifid lip.

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• 5
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Corolla rather small; standard round, auriculate at the base, without appendages, glabrous; wings long-spurred at the junction of blade and claw.

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• 5
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Seeds 3–8, subglobose or ovoid-oblong, compressed; hilum short; a small cartilaginous funicle remnant persisting.

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• 5
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Prostrate trailers or lianes, more rarely erect subshrubs, from an extensive rootstock.

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• 5
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Pods linear-oblong to oblong, dehiscent, usually septate.

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• 5
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Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped, the lower lip 3-fid, the upper pair of lobes joined to form a bifid lip

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• 6
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Inflorescences axillary, falsely racemose, the flowers in fascicles along the rhachis which is slightly thickened at the insertion of the pedicels; bracts soon falling; bracteoles absent

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Vexillary stamen free; anthers uniform

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Corolla rather small; standard round, auriculate at the base, without appendages, glabrous; wings long-spurred at the junction of blade and claw

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• 6
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Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules not spurred, persistent; stipels present

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• 6
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Seeds 3–8, subglobose or ovoid-oblong, compressed; hilum short; a small cartilaginous funicle-remnant persisting.

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• 6
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Prostrate trailers or lianes, more rarely erect subshrubs, from an extensive rootstock

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• 6
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Ovary linear, 3–8-ovuled, with a thickened glabrous area forming a small boss at the base of the style; style thickened below, bent over at a right-angle, glabrous; stigma small, capitate, glabrous

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Pods linear-oblong to oblong, dehiscent, septate

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Plantes'prostrées à volubiles, parfois à rhizome charnu.'Feuilles'pennées 3-foliolées, pétiolées ; stipules 2, non prolongées au-dessous de l'insertion, persistantes; folioles stipellées.'Inflorescences'en racèmes axillaires, ± densiflores, à rachis légèrement renflé à l'insertion des pédicelles; bractées ± caduques.'Fleurs'sans bractéoles; calice à limbe bilabié; lèvre supérieure bidentée; lèvre inférieure à 3 lobes dont le médian plus long; corolle à pétales onguiculés; étendard suborbiculaire, auriculé à la base, sans appendices (callosités); ailes étroites, ± éperonnées à la base; carène dressée-incurvée, à sommet obtus; étamines 10, diadelphes, 9 soudées, la vexillaire libre ou ± adhérente; anthères semblables; ovaire sessile, 3-8-ovulé; disque présent; style épaissi à la base, genouillé, glabre; stigmate capité, glabre.'Gousses'oblongues, linéaires, déhiscentes, ± coriaces, cloisonnées.'Graines 3-8, subglobuleuses, à funicule court et large.\n\t\t\t\tGenre africain comprenant ± 8 espèces; 1 au Congo belge.

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