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 DRC: 23 taxa. |
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| Species | Botanical divisions | 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. | ||
| buchananii (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| chloroleucum (Welw. ex Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| crotalarioides (Planch.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| cyphopetalum (Fresen.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| elisabethvilleanum (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | XI | Description, Image |
| fugosioides (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| heterotrichum (Gilg & R.E. Fr.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| hildebrandtii (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| junceum (Webb) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| lynesii (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description | |
| manikense (De Wild.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| mildbraedii (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | ||
| obovato-oblongum (De Wild.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| princeae (Gilg & M. Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| serpens (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Desc. | ||
| ukerewense (Gilg) Desc. | ||
| vandenbrandeanum (Dewit) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| vanmeelii (Lawalrée) Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| wittei (Staner) Wild & R.B. Drumm. | Description, Image | |
| zombense (Baker) Desc. ex Wild & R.B. Drumm. |