Pseudoprosopis Harms

Shrubs or lianes or sometimes small trees, unarmed. Leaves bipinnate; petiole and rhachis eglandular; pinnae each with few to many pairs of opposite leaflets. Inflorescences of racemes which are axillary and solitary or up to three together, and often aggregated on ± shortened shoots. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx gamosepalous with 5 teeth. Petals 5, free or almost so, valvate in bud (or very slightly overlapping in their lower part in P. fischeri). Stamens 10, fertile; anthers each with a caducous apical gland. Ovary hairy. Pods straight or somewhat curved, compressed, woody, oblong, dehiscing from apex downwards into 2 recurving valves. Seeds lying ± obliquely in the pod, each sunk in a depression in the valve, compressed, brown, glossy, unwinged, elliptic to ± rhombic, without endosperm.