Adenodolichos Harms

Herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, erect or prostrate, often glandular. Leaves alternate or opposite, pinnately or rarely digitately 3–5-foliolate, rarely 2-foliolate; leaflets glandular beneath; stipules not spurred, deciduous or ± persistent; stipels usually present. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, racemose or paniculate; rhachis slightly swollen at the insertion of the pedicels; bracts and bracteoles present. Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped; upper lip entire to deeply bifid, lower lip 3-lobed. Corolla medium-sized, white or more usually purplish; standard obovate or rounded, emarginate, auriculate and with 2 obscure to well-developed appendages, glabrous; wings with long spur at the base of the lamina. Vexillary stamen free; 5 basifixed anthers alternating with 5 shorter medifixed anthers. Ovary ellipsoidal, 2-ovuled; style incurved, laterally flattened, swollen at the base, barbate above on the inner side; stigma terminal, oblique, ± folded. Pods oblong-falcate, compressed, beaked with the persistent curved style-base, narrowed below, ± glandular. Seeds 1–2, usually rounded and compressed; hilum grooved; rim-aril developed or absent.