Small trees, shrubs or suffrutices, unarmed. Leaves 2-pinnate; rhachis eglandular. Inflorescences of axillary spike-like racemes, solitary or clustered. Calyx with 5 teeth. Petals 5, free. Stamens 10. Anthers with a caducous apical gland. Pod straight or ± curved; at maturity the valves separating from the persistent margins, the outer layer of the pod wall often peeling off the inner layer, the layers remaining intact or breaking irregularly. Seeds ± flattened. Worldwide: 9 species in tropical and South Africa Mozambique: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| burkei Benth. | M | Description, Image |
| elephantina (Burch.) Skeels | GI | Description, Image |
| goetzei (Harms) Harms [Agg] | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| goetzei (Harms) Harms subsp. goetzei | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| suffruticosa Schinz | MS | Description, Image |