Thulin, M. (1993) Fabaceae (Leguminosae), Flora of Somalia 1: 341-465
Plants annual or perennia. Leaves digitately compound with 2 or 4 leaflets; leaflets more or less glandular punctate. Inflorescences open spikes; bracts paired, enclosing the flowers when in bud. Calyces hyaling, ciliate, the 2 upper lobes connate; filaments all united into a tube; anthers 10, alternately long and short. Pods flattened, jointed, units almost always with bristles.
Zornia includes about 80 species. They grow in the tropics, 13 of them being native to Africa.
One species, Zornia apiculata, is notive to Somaliland and Somalia. Plants annual or perennia. Leaves digitately compound with 2 or 4 leaflets; leaflets more or less glandular punctate. Inflorescences open spikes; bracts paired, enclosing the flowers when in bud. Calyces hyaling, ciliate, the 2 upper lobes connate; filaments all united into a tube; anthers 10, alternately long and short. Pods flattened, jointed, units almost always with bristles.
Zornia includes about 80 species. They grow in the tropics, 13 of them being native to Africa.
One species, Zornia apiculata, is notive to Somaliland and Somalia.