Description

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Growth Form: Shrubs or perennial herbs.

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Leaves: Leaves compound (bipinnate). Alternate. Leaflets small, opposite. Petiolate, often with a petiolar gland. Stipules small, subulate, persistent.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary, solitary, stalked heads or short spikes. Flowers mimosaceous, bisexual (perfect), sometimes those in lower part of inflorescence staminate or neutral, these without petals but with staminodes, each one minute; bracteoles absent. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-lobed. Petals distinct or slightly coherent at base. Stamens 5–10; filaments distinct, exserted. Ovary superior; ovules numerous.

Fruit: Pods linear; straight or curved; flattened; dehiscent; valves thickened or membranous. Seeds more than 15; longitudinally or obliquely arranged; ovoid; compressed; without a pleurogram.

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