Archidendropsis I.C.Nielsen

Unarmed shrubs or trees. Stipules filiform or auriculate, generally caducous. Leaves bipinnate, rachis and most often pinnae with extrafloral nectaries; leaflets opposite or alternate. Inflorescences consisting of pedunculate spikes, spiciform racemes, or (in one species) glomerules. Flowers uniform, tetra-or pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx connate, valvate. Corolla connate, valvate. Stamens numerous, united into a tube at the base. Ovary solitary or several together. Pods (not known in Malesian species) chartaceous(-coriaceous), flat (or sometimes turgid), straight (or sometimes curved), dehiscing mostly along both sutures, not segmented, not reddish inside; endocarp not separating from the exocarp, not forming separate envelopes around the seeds. Seeds flattened (or sometimes turgid), narrowly winged when flat, brown or black, without aril, testa thin, without areole, endosperm absent; cotyledons large, sometimes green, radicle curved.