Infl. racemose, axillary, pedunculate. Pedicels short, bracteate. Calyx with 5 subequal teeth, pilose within, sts also without. Standard about orbicular, ± retuse; keel sts spirally coiled. Stamens diadelphous, ovules us. ∞, subsessile to stipitate. Style adaxially bearded; stigma terminal, minute. Pods with ridged, ventral, ± intruded suture, walls subcoriac. to membr. Herbs and subshrubs with imparipinnate, stipulate lvs, lflts opp. to subopp. Over 50 Australian spp., and one sp. endemic to N.Z.
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