Cyclocarpa

Cyclocarpa stellaris is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is an annual or perennial herb or subshrub. It has a disjunct distribution, from Senegal to Tanzania and Mozambique in sub-Saharan Africa (Sudanian and Zambezian grasslands), in Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Java, and in western and northern Australia.^[1] It is the only member of the genus Cyclocarpa.^[2]

Cyclocarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Dalbergieae
Genus:	Cyclocarpa Afzel. ex Urb. (1884)
Species:	C. stellaris
Binomial name
Cyclocarpa stellaris Afzel. ex Baker (1884)
Synonyms
Aeschynomene stellaris (Afzel. ex Urb.) Roberty (1954)

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae.^[3][4]