3680.000 Adenocarpus DC.

Much-branched shrubs or small trees, with silky or villous indumentum; branching alternate.Leaves petiolate, digitately 3-foliolate; stipules usually small and caducous or absent.Inflorescence terminal, racemose or capitate.Calyx valvate in bud, 2-lipped, the upper lip deeply bifid, the lower 3-lobed or 3-dentate.Corolla usually yellow, with petals shortly clawed; standard subcircular, as long as or longer than the wings; wings obovate or oblong; keel incurved.Stamens all joined into a closed tube; anthers alternately long and short.Ovary sessile, multi-ovulate.Pod oblong, compressed, dehiscent, glandular-tuberculate or muricate, usually villous.Seeds ovate-oblong in outline, smooth with a small aril.

Worldwide: Species 15; in West and Southern Europe, Canary Islands and North Africa.

Zambia: 1 taxon.