Description

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Growth Form: Shrubs, trees, or perennial herbs, pubescent with simple hairs.

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Leaves: Leaves compound (even-pinnate). Alternate. Leaflets alternate to opposite; leaflets numerous (usually more than 10 pairs), alternate to opposite; the rachis ending in a short bristle. The rachis ending in a short bristle. Stipules usually fugacious. Leaflets stipellate.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary racemes. Flowers papilionaceous; Pedicels articulated at apex, bracts and bracteoles minute, hypanthium present. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla variously colored, standard orbicular or ovate, with 2 spreading or parallel appendages near center of base of blade, wings oblong, falcate, transversely ribbed, short–clawed, keel petals incurved, long clawed. Stamens 10; upper stamen distinct or very loosely adherent to the others, the other 9 connate into a tube; anthers dorsifixed, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Pods linear; usually becoming subterete; dehiscent by spirally curved valves; sometimes tardily so; or rarely indehiscent; transversely septate and slightly constricted between the seeds; apex beaked. Seeds (8–)20–50; ellipsoid; slightly laterally flattened; often narrowly rim–arillate around hilum.

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