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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.

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Source: Flora of Zimbabwe

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