Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves (in ours) in a single rosette at apex of stem, paripinnate, ± sensitive (i.e. the leaflets fold downwards when touched briskly). Leaflets opposite or subopposite. Flowers orange, yellow, white or pinkish in pseudumbels with bracts forming an involucre. Worldwide: 50 species in the tropics Burundi: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| crassipes Engl. | Description, Image | |
| helenae Buscal. & Muschl. | Description, Image | |
| umbraculum Welw. | Description, Image |