M. Thulin (1993) Lupinus. Flora of Somalia 1: 459.
Plants usually herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves usually palmately compound; stipules adnate to the petiole bases. Inflorescences terminal racemes. Calyces 2-lipped, divided almost to the base; corollas variously coloured; wings connate distally; keels beaked; stamens all united by their filamentes. Pods dehiscent, compressed, usually constricted between the seeds.
Lupinus is a genus of about 612 species. The species are most numerous in the New World but there is a second centre of diversity around the Mediterranean. One species, Lupinus somaliensis, is endemic to western Somaliland. The genus is not known to grow in Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.