Compilation
Sophora inhambanensis

Shrub 1–2 m. high. Young branches, leaves, inflorescences and calyces densely whitish to silvery or golden pubescent, the calyces and both surfaces of the leaflets strongly sericeous. Leaves with petiole and rhachis together 7–12(–16) cm. long and with (3–)5–7(–8) pairs of leaflets; lateral leaflets elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 1.8–4(–5) cm. long, 0.7–l.5(–2) cm. wide, cuneate and slightly asymmetrical at the base, obtuse to subacute at the apex; terminal leaflet 1.5–2 times as long as the lateral ones, cuneate and equal-sided at the base. Flowers many in terminal racemes up to 25 cm. long; bracts narrowly triangular to linear, up to 14 mm. long, often persistent, sometimes fused with the base of the pedicel; pedicels 5–12 mm. long; bracteoles apparently absent. Calyx campanulate, 4–6 mm. long, with 5 shallow teeth up to 1 mm. long. Petals yellow; standard 17–22 mm. long, 15–18 mm. wide, the limb suborbicular, cordate, the claw ± distinct; wings and keel-petals slightly shorter than the standard. Ovary densely appressed pubescent. Fruits developing 1–3(–5) seeds. Seeds subglobose, 8–9 mm. long, brownish. Fig. 8, p. 45.