Shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules small, deciduous; leaf rachises occasionally spinescent. Flowers axillary, solitary or in short racemes, bisexual, irregular; bracts deciduous. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, orange-yellow; adaxial one usually with a basal red flare; vexillar one interior in bud, unequal. Stamens 3, fertile, opposed to the 3 abaxial sepals; filaments much shorter than the anthers; anthers basifixed, dehiscing by vertical slits; staminodes 2, small, with imperfect anthers, opposed to adaxial sepals. Ovary subsessile, free; style dilated into a boat-shaped petaloid limb, saccate above the ovary, 3-lobed, with middle lobe terminated by a small stigma. Pod oblong, compressed, dehiscing along both sutures. Seeds compressed; funicle dilated into a globular aril.
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