Shrubs or herbs, erect, prostrate, or rarely scandent
Leaves digitately (1)3-foliolate, exstipellate, gland-dotted on lower surface; stipules striate, often caducous
Flowers greenish, yellowish white or pink, densely spicate-racemose or paniculate; bracts foliaceous or dry and narrow, persistent or caducous; bracteoles 0
Calyx with campanulate tube, 5-lobed; lobes longer than tube, often linear-acuminate, subequal or lowest the longest
Petals: vexillum with inflexed ears at base and channelled claw; wings often adhering to keel; keel straight or incurved, clawed
Stamens diadelphous, with vexillary filament often kneed or broadened; anthers uniform
Ovary subsessile, ellipsoid, 2-ovuled, sometimes with basal, cupular disc; style often thickened above, with small, terminal stigma
Pod short, oblique, turgid, 2-valved
Seeds thick, globose; thick funicle attached to short hilum
x = 11 (aneuploids)
Nomenclature:
Flemingia Roxb. ex W.T.Aiton
Aiton: 349 (1812) name conserved
Phillips: 425 (1951)
Hutchinson: 422 (1964)
Verdcourt: 805 (1971)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 30, tropical regions of Old World
Southern Africa: Species 1: Flemingia grahamiana Wight & Arn., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland to KwaZulu-Natal
References:
AITON, W.T. 1812. Hortus kewensis edn 2,4. Longman, London
HUTCHINSON, J. 1964. Order LEGUMINALES. The genera of flowering plants 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford
PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. Leguminosae. The genera of South African flowering plants, edn 2. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
VERDCOURT, B. 1971. Flora of tropical East Africa. Leguminosae (part 4). Papilionoideae
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