Description

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Growth Form: Trees or large shrubs.

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Leaves: Leaves compound. Spirally arranged, often distichous, abruptly pinnate; rachis and petioles without glands. leaflets opposite, without stipels. Petiolate. Stipules present.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal panicles on main shoots or racemes on short side shoots; pedicels with 2 bracteoles at or shortly above base. Flowers perfect. Calyx 5-merous; sepals reflexed at anthesis. Corolla zygomorphic; petals 5. Stamens 10; filaments of 3 abaxial antesepalous stamens sigmoidally curved, usually longer than their anthers, dehiscent by slits; remaining 7 filaments straight and short, with anthers mostly dehiscent by basal pores.

Fruit: Legume elongate; cylindric or compressed; indehiscent. Seeds numerous; 1- or 2-seriate; funicle filiform.

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