Trees or shrubs. Leaves with several leaflets pinnately disposed; bracts and bracteoles minute, deciduous. Flowers with the hypanthium. campanulate to cyathi-form, truncate, the 5 teeth short; vexillum suborbicular, lacking auricles or callosi-ties; wing petals curved, oblong, adhering to the keel petals, the latter oblong; stamens monadelphous, the odd filament free at the base, the anthers versatile; ovary shortly stipitate, without a glandular disk, the style curved, glabrous, the stigma minute. Fruits somewhat terete, thick, leathery, indehiscent, sometimes glo-bose or moniliform; seeds numerous, numerous, occasionally solitary, ovoid to sub-globose, the hilum lateral, somewhat incurved.
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