Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves basal and cauline, palmately lobed. Flowers zygomorphic, bisexual, arranged in terminal racemes or panicles. Sepals 5, ± petaloid, the dorsal sepal spurred. Petals 2-5, the posterior 2 with spurs joined and fitting into the calyx-spur. Stamens many, the filaments often flattened.
Fruit of 3 pubescent follicles.
Worldwide: c. 320 species, in N temperate regions and on tropical African mountains. Burundi: 1 taxon. |
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