Erect, prostrate or climbing perennial herbs or shrubs. Tendrils opposite the leaves or 0. Stipules present. Leaves digitately 3-9-foliolate, rarely simple and entire or lobed. Inflorescences of leaf-opposed or axillary corymbose cymes. Flowers 4-merous. Fl. bud cylindric to flask-shaped, constricted at or near the middle. Petals hooded at the apex, becoming reflexed after flowering. Disk divided into 4 ± fleshy glands. Style simple. Fruit usually with 1 seed. Worldwide: c. 250 species in warm areas; many in Africa Burundi: 11 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| adenocaule (Steud. ex A. Rich.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| adenopodum (Sprague) | ||
| bambuseti (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| crotalarioides (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| cyphopetalum (Fresen.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| heterotrichum (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| michelii (Dewit) Desc. | ||
| mildbraedii (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| serpens (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Desc. | ||
| ukerewense (Gilg) Desc. | ||
| vanderbenii (Dewit) Desc. |