6116.020 Lefebvrea A.Rich.

Biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves 2-ternate or 2-pinnate (often irregularly so). Umbels compound. Bracts 0-few, bracteoles few to several. Calyx teeth minute or 0; petals yellow to greenish-white. Fruit broadly elliptic to pear-shaped, very strongly flattened dorsiventrally, with a broad commissure. Lateral wings well-developed and surrounding the well-developed conic stylopodium at the apex.

Some doubt exists as to how many species of Lefebvrea occur in Zimbabwe and Mozambique and what their names are.

Derivation of name: after Theophile Lefebvre (1811-1860) French naval officer and traveller.

Worldwide: 6 species in tropical and SW Africa.

Burundi: 2 taxa.