Pycnospora R.Br. ex Wight & Arn.

Subshrubby herb. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or the lowest often 1-foliolate; stipules free, lanceolate-subulate, striate; stipels present. Inflorescences terminal, lax, falsely racemose or paniculate, the flowers usually paired on the rhachis; primary bracts membranous, deciduous; secondary bracts and bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-lobed; upper pair of lobes connate for most of their length. Corolla small, purplish, glabrous; standard ± rounded, narrowed at the base; wings obliquely oblong, adherent to the keel, the petals of which have small membranous appendages towards the base outside. Vexillary stamen quite free in the opened flower; anthers uniform. Intrastaminal disc present. Ovary sessile with numerous ovules; style subulate, recurved at the apex; stigma terminal. Pod oblong, inflated, unilocular, not articulated, the valves thin, transversely lined-venose. Seeds small, subreniform, with a thin scarcely perceptible rim-aril around the small circular hilum.