M. Thulin (1993) Microcharis. Flora of Somalia 1:418-420
Plants herbs or shrublets with biramous hairs. Leaves with 1-9(-13) leaflets or simple. Inflorescences axillary racemes; bracts persistent. Flowers pedicellate; pedicels long, in fruit becoming at right angles to the racheme axes; corollas pink or red, soon falling; banner petals glabrous; keels with lateral pouches but no spurs, sometimes beaked; uppermost stamen in each flower free, usually sterile; anthers with hyaline scales, apiculate; stigmas oblique, discoid. Pods linear, straigt or curved, flattened, several- to many-seeded.
Microcharis includes about 33 species. They are native in Africa, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula. Eight species are known from 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.
