Description :

• Erect or prostrate shrubs or small trees, with greyish to white bark, glabrous or sparsely covered with stout, multicellular sessile glands
• Leaves alternate, simple, small, sometimes borne on abbreviated lateral shoots, emarginate apically or shallowly bilobed, truncate to cordate basally; lobes obliquely obovate to semicircular, light to greyish green, petiolate; stipules narrowly triangular, acuminate
• Inflorescence a short or elongate raceme or flowers borne on abbreviated lateral shoots
• Flowers bisexual, irregular, medium to rather small
• Calyx broadly campanulate, with 5 short teeth or lobes ± equal in size, persistent, covered in some instances with multicellular glands
• Petals 5, obovate or elliptical to lanceolate, narrowed basally into a claw
• Stamens 10, free, all functional, some longer than petals
• Ovary stalked; stalk ± 20 mm long, not fused to calyx tube
• Pod crescent-shaped to shortly and broadly falcate, rounded, membranous, glandular or eglandular, with several seeds
• Seeds small
• x = 14 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

• Adenolobus (Harv. ex Benth.) Torre & Hillc.
  • Torre & Hillcoat: 37 (1955)
  • Torre & Hillcoat: 194 (1956)
  • Schreiber: 4 (1967)
  • Brummitt & Ross: 400 (1976)
  • Coetzer & Ross: 55 (1977)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species 2, Africa, occurring in S Angola and southern Africa
• Southern Africa : Namibia, N Botswana and Northern Cape