Paraserianthes I.C.Nielsen

Unarmed shrubs or trees. Stipules linear or filiform, caducous, not spinescent. Leaves bipinnate, rachis and pinnae with extrafloral nectaries; leaflets opposite, sessile. Inflorescences composed of pedunculate spikes or racemes, the spikes sometimes aggregated into panicles axillary to the distal leaves. Flowers bisexual, pentamerous, uniform. Calyx connate, valvate, sometimes circumscissile at the base. Corolla connate, valvate. Stamens numerous, united into a tube at the base. Ovary solitary. Pods chartaceous, straight, flat, dehiscent, not segmented, not reddish inside, the endocarp not forming envelopes around each seed. Seeds suborbicular-elliptic or oblong, flat or convex, with a hard olive-green, brown or black testa, with pleurogram, wingless, aril absent, endosperm absent, cotyledons large.