1	"Plants annual herbs; leaves simple"	"Microcharis tennuirostris"
1	"Plants perennial herbs or shrublets; leaves with 1-5 leaflets"	2
2	"Leaflets filiform, about 10-25(-40) mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide; plants slender shrubs, about 1 m tall"	"Microcharis nematophylla"
2	"Leaflets not as above; plants up to about 40 cm tall"	3
3	"Pods spirally coiled"	4
3	"Pods straight or somewhat curved"	5
4	"Flowers cream with purplish veins; leaves digitate, with3 leaflets; stipules 1-2 mm long"	"Microcharis karinensis"
4	"Flowers pink or red; at least some leaves pinately compound with 3-5 leaflets; stipules 2-5 mm long"	"Microcharis kucharii"
5	"Leaves pinnately compound, with (1)3(-5) leaflets; pods up to 1.5 mm wide"	"Microcharis wajirensis"
5	"Leaves with1 leaflet or digitately compound with 3 leaflets"	6
6	"Stipules highly reducted, up to 0.5 mm long"	"Microcharis sessilis"
6	"Stipules 3-11 mm long"	7
7	"Leaves digitately 3-foliolate or somes leaves with only 1leaflet"	"Microcharis tritoides"
7	"Leaves with 1 leaflet"	"Microcharis stipulosa"