Annual or perennial herbs, mostly bulbous. Leaves radical or cauline, alternate or in a cluster, digitately 3-foliolate (in ours). Flowers actinomorphic, solitary or subtended by bracts in pseudumbels or cymes. Petals contorted, unguiculate. Stamens 10 in 2 rows. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent. Worldwide: 700 species, cosmopolitan but concentrated in S America and the Cape Botswana: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| corniculata L. | SE | Description, Image |
| depressa Eckl. & Zeyh. | ||
| obliquifolia Steud. ex A.Rich. | Description, Image | |
| purpurascens Salter | ||
| semiloba Sond. subsp. semiloba | SE | Description, Image |