Leaves imparipinnate; stipules present, caducous; stipels almost always 0
Flowers white, in lateral, spreading panicles, a number together from young shoots which grow out into leafy branches; bracts and bracteoles small, caducous
Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-lobed, the upper 2 obscure
Petals: vexillum shortly clawed, scarcely callused, suborbicular to oblate; wings oblong-obovate; keel with elliptic-falcate blades, lightly coherent along lower side
Stamens diadelphous, with vexillary stamens free; anthers dorsifixed
Ovary sessile, few-ovuled; style curved, attenuate, with a small, incurved stigma
Pod indehiscent, compressed, margined with a wing on each side; valves coherent between seeds
Seeds oblong-reniform
x = 12 (1 report)
Nomenclature:
Xeroderris Roberty
Roberty: 353 (1954)
Mendonça & Sousa: 273 (1968)
Polhill: 91 (1971)
Ostryoderris Dunn
Dunn: 363 (1911)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 1: Xeroderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Mendonça & E.P.Sousa (= Ostryoderris stuhlmannii Taub.) Harms., in the savanna regions of tropical Africa
Southern Africa: Northern Province
References:
DUNN, S.T. 1911. Ostryocarpus and a new allied genus Ostryoderris. Kew Bulletin 1911
MENDONÇA, F. de A. & SOUSA, E.P. 1968. New and little known species from the Flora Zambesiaca area-XXI. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana sér. 2, 42
POLHILL, R.M. 1971. Flora of tropical East Africa. Leguminosae (part 3). Papilionoideae
ROBERTY, G.E. 1954. Bulletin de l'Institut Française Afrique Noire sér. A, 16
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