Pararchidendron I.C.Nielsen

Unarmed shrubs or trees. Stipules linear or filiform, not spinescent. Leaves bipinnate, rachis and pinnae with extrafloral nectaries; leaflets alternate. Inflorescences consisting of axillary pedunculate corymbs, often paired, on short-shoots. Flowers uniform, pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx connate, valvate. Corolla connate, valvate. Stamens numerous, united into a tube at the base. Ovary solitary. Pods chartaceous, flattened, curved into a circle or contorted, not segmented, reddish inside, the endocarp not forming separate envelopes around each seed, pods dehiscent first along the ventral suture. Seeds ellipsoid, obovate or subglobose, with pleurogram, aril absent, wingless, testa thick; endosperm absent, cotyledons large.