Shrubs or subshrubs. Stipules lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, large, membranous or herbaceous, adnate to base of petiole. Leaves imparipinnate, 5-27-foliolate; stipels absent; leaflet blades leathery, margin entire. Raceme 4-flowered or more; bracts and bractlets rarely persistent. Calyx tubular, oblique on pedicel; teeth 5, almost equal or adaxial 2 connate. Corolla yellow, large; standard ovate or suborbicular, erect, reflexed at margins; wings obovate-oblong or subfalcate; keel incurved, equal to wings, apex blunt. Stamens diadelphous (9+1); anthers orbicular. Ovary sessile, with glandular trichomes or pubescent; style filiform; stigma small. Legume cylindric or linear, pubescent or with glandular trichomes, 1-loculed, inside pubescent or glabrous, 2-valved, with persistent calyx. Seeds subreniform, without a caruncle.
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