Carmichaelia R.Br.

Shrubs or small trees; habit various, often broom-like. Leaves imparipinnate, often absent in adult plant, with stems flattened and photosynthetic; stipules absent; stipels small, membranous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary racemose, simple or branched, or clustered, or sometimes flowers solitary; bracts and bracteoles small, membranous. Calyx campanulate; teeth 5, ± equal. Standard petal ± orbicular, shortly clawed; wings ± falcate; keel incurved. Stamens 9 + 1; uppermost free; other 9 united into a tube; anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate, with slender style, persistent in fruit; stigma capitate, minute. Pods ovate to elliptic-oblong, sometimes somewhat obliquely so, usually dehiscent; valves completely or partially separating from margins. Seeds 1–12, ± kidney-shaped.