Habit: Perennial herb, unarmed; caudex woody.
Stem: branched, fleshy.
Leaf: stipules +- leaf-like or membranous; leaflets 2 [> 2], free, fleshy.
Inflorescence: flowers 1--2 in axils.
Flower: sepals often unequal, overlapping, deciduous or not; petals +- erect, white, yellow, or orange, base sometimes orange or red.
Fruit: capsule, cylindric to spheric, 5-angled, septicidal.
Seed: 1--few per chamber.
Species In Genus: +- 70 species: Eurasia, southern Africa, Australia.
Etymology: (Greek: yoke leaf, from sometimes oblique leaflets)
Jepson eFlora Author: Duncan M. Porter
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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