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Inflorescences of round heads, pedunculate, axillary, or supra-axillary, solitary or paired or sometimes in threes, sometimes ± racemosely aggregated on short shoots.
Seeds lying transversely or obliquely in the pod, each sunk in a depression in the valve, compressed, usually brown, glossy, unwinged, without endosperm.
Leaves 2-pinnate; petiole bearing a gland at its apex at the junction of the solitary pair of pinnae; pinnae each with few to many pairs of leaflets.
Pods normally obliquely obovate to oblanceolate or dolabriform, compressed, woody, dehiscing from the apex downwards into 2 recurving valves.
Stamens 10, fertile; anthers each with a caducous apical gland (rarely and only in extra-African species absent).
Corolla with 5 lobes ± united below, ± pubescent or puberulous outside.
Flowers male or hermaphrodite, sessile or pedicellate.
Calyx gamosepalous with 5 lobes.
Ovary pubescent.
Trees, unarmed.
