Shrubs or small trees, often glutinous, sometimes harshly setose
Leaves
imparipinnate, leaflets many; stipulate
Flowers
solitary or in few-flowered, axillary racemes
Calyx
with broadly campanulate tube; lobes longer than tube, 2 upper lobes connivent or shortly connate, lowest the longest
Petals
: vexillum with curved claw; wings clawed; keel incurved, clawed
Stamens
monadelphous; staminal tube often splitting to give 2 bundles of 5; anthers uniform
Ovary
sessile, stalked, several- to many-ovuled; style inflexed, with terminal stigma
Pod
linear, compressed, constricted into 2 or more indehiscent segments
Seeds
light brown, ± elliptic, compressed
x = 10, 12, 13 (1 report each)
Nomenclature:
Ormocarpum
P.Beauv.
Beauvois: 95, t. 59 (1810) name conserved
Hutchinson: 473 (1964)
Gillett: 323 (1966)
Verdcourt: 361 (1973)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species ± 20, in tropical parts of Old World and Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 2:
Ormocarpum kirkii
S.Moore and
O. trichocarpum
(Taub.) Engl., northern parts of Namibia, the four northern provinces to KwaZulu-Natal
References:
BEAUVOIS, A.M.F.J. P. DE. 1810.
Flore d' Oware
1. Fain, Paris
GILLETT, J.B. 1966. The species of
Ormocarpum
Beauv. and
Arthrocarpum
Balf.f. (
Leguminosae
) in south-western Asia and Africa (excluding Madagascar).
Kew Bulletin
20
HUTCHINSON, J. 1964. Order LEGUMINALES.
The genera of flowering plants
1. Oxford University Press, Oxford
VERDCOURT, B. 1973. Summary of the
Leguminosae
-
Papilionoideae
-
Hedysareae
(sensu lato) of Flora Zambesiaca.
Kirkia
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