Craibia Harms & Dunn

Slow-growing trees or shrubs. Hairs nearly always golden-brown or black. Leaves pulvinate, usually imparipinnate, with up to 11 alternate (or rarely opposite) leaflets, rarely, outside the Flora area, 1-foliolate; buds well developed, flattened, oval or round, with broad scales; stipellae present or absent; petiolules wrinkled; leaflets leathery, acuminate, glabrous or glabrescent above and often beneath, with a strongly developed nerve-network, the principal nerves breaking up before reaching the margin. Inflorescence a terminal or, less often, axillary raceme or a terminal panicle; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Flowers usually fragrant. Calyx-lobes broad, much shorter than the tube, the upper pair united for at least half their length. Corolla white or minutely speckled and streaked with pink or purple, glabrous except, rarely, for a few weak hairs at the edge of the standard; claw of standard short, clearly distinct from the usually oblong lamina which is without folds or processes at the base; wings and keel with well-marked auricles. Vexillary stamen essentially free, curving away from the others at the base and tip but sometimes slightly adhering in the middle; anthers all alike, without appendages. Disc absent. Ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous or ± tomentose with long golden-brown hairs; ovules 2–6 in the distal part of the ovary; style cylindrical; stigma small, terminal, punctate or capitate. Pod shortly stipitate, flat, tapering at the base, markedly asymmetric, the lower suture evenly convex, the upper ± concave below, convex distally, glabrous or glabrescent, shortly beaked, dehiscing into thin, stiff, woody, twisted valves. Seeds 1–3, ellipsoid, black or dark brown; hilum short, near one end of the seed, surrounded by a short white cupular aril which is produced at one side into a curved strap-like process clasping the funicle; cotyledons hypogeal.