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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 Malawi: 12 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adenocaule (Steud. ex A. Rich.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| crotalarioides (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| gigantophyllum (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| junceum (Webb) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | C,S | Description, Image |
| kilimandscharicum (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| lynesii (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| masukuense (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| princeae (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| setosum (Roxb.) Alston | S | Description |
| subciliatum (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | N,S | Description, Image |
| vandenbrandeanum (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | N | Description, Image |
| wittei (Staner) Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image |
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