Herbs (in ours), sometimes shrubby below, often glandular. Leaves digitately 3-9-foliolate or rarely simple (monophylla). Flowers zygomorphic, in terminal racemes. Sepals 4, often glandular. Petals 4. Stamens 2-many, all fertile or some sterile. Androgynophore 0 or very short (except in C. gynandra where it is longer than the corolla). Gynophore 0 or short. Fruit a 2-valved, dehiscent capsule, often borne on an elongated gynophore. Worldwide: 150 species from tropical and warm areas Burundi: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| gynandra L. | Description, Image | |
| hirta (Klotzsch) Oliv. | Description, Image | |
| iberidella Welw. ex Oliv. | ||
| macrophylla (Klotzsch) Briq. | Description, Image | |
| monophylla L. | Description, Image | |
| rutidosperma DC. var. rutidosperma | Image | |
| schimperi Pax |