M. Thulin (1993) Ormocarpum. Flora of Somalia 1: 422-424
Plants shrubs or small trees, usually with bothweak, white hairs and stiffer, darker, swollen-based hairs which often exude a yellow viscid fluid when young and whose bases may persist as small tubercles when old. Leaves often clustered on short shoots. odd-pinnate; leaflets usually more or less alternate, upper-surfaces with minute dots. Inflorescences axillary, racemes or solitary flowers. Calyces usually strongly veined, 5-lobed, lower lobe the longest, 2 upper lobes united for about half their length; receptacles cup-shaped; corollas glabrous or the upper 3 petals somewhat pubescent; stamens divided dorsally into 2 groups of 5 or all united into a sheath slit on upper side. Pods breaking transversely into 1-6, 1-seeded indehsicent, elliptic or oblong units.
Ormocarpum includes about 20 species, most of which are native to Africa. There are 7 species known from Somaliland and Somalia.
Key to the species of Ormocarpum in Somaliland and Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.